Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jeremy Hunt and Jeff Smith

Tuesday 7th May 2024 Commons Chamber

[Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington) (Lab)]

T10. The Chancellor recently claimed that £100,000 a year is not a huge salary. Does he realise how out of touch that sounds to families in my constituency who are working hard, earning much less than that and really struggling because they are paying 25% more for their weekly shop than they were two years ago, and whose mortgages soared after the Tories crashed the economy?

[Jeremy Hunt]

The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that he has taken my comments out of context. I will tell him what is really out of touch: the shadow Chancellor saying it is not a big deal if inflation falls.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jeremy Hunt and Jeff Smith

Tuesday 19th December 2023 Commons Chamber

[Jeremy Hunt]

Because the way we return the overseas aid budget to 0.7% is to grow the economy. By cutting national insurance, we put nearly 100,000 more people into the national workforce, filling nearly one in 10 vacancies in companies up and down the country.

[Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington) (Lab)]

7. What recent steps he has taken to help ensure people have access to banking services.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Jeremy Hunt and Jeff Smith

Tuesday 21st March 2023 Commons Chamber

[Jeff Smith (Manchester, Withington) (Lab)]

T6. The head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said of the Chancellor:“Continuing to muddle through, massage the figures, and implement poorly designed policies will only make the problems worse.”That is a pretty damning verdict on his Budget, is it not?

[Jeremy Hunt]

It would be if his comment had not been quoted out of context, as the hon. Gentleman just did, because he also said that he could see in the Budget a growth plan and he strongly welcomed measures such as the childcare reform.