Debates between Lord Hammond of Runnymede and Tony Lloyd during the 2017-2019 Parliament

Spring Statement

Debate between Lord Hammond of Runnymede and Tony Lloyd
Tuesday 13th March 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Hammond of Runnymede Portrait Mr Hammond
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Creative industries is an increasingly important part of the UK economy, and one in which we have a significant comparative advantage, and the best way the Government can support the creative industries, apart from the obvious one of training and skilling, is through supporting the roll-out of digital technologies on which so many of the creative industries these days depend.

Tony Lloyd Portrait Tony Lloyd (Rochdale) (Lab)
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The Chancellor’s constituency will have families on the national living wage, and I have many more. Does he agree with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which has demonstrated that a two-parent family with one working and two children will, because of tax credit cuts, be £450 a year worse off? That is not fair shares, is it?

Lord Hammond of Runnymede Portrait Mr Hammond
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The national living wage has given a pay rise of more than £2,000 a year to anyone in full-time work since it was introduced in 2015, and of course it is not just the national living wage; it is also the increase in the personal allowance, which means that people are now able to keep more of what they take home, and because it is an allowance, rather than a rate cut, it disproportionately benefits those on the lowest earnings.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Hammond of Runnymede and Tony Lloyd
Tuesday 16th January 2018

(6 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Hammond of Runnymede Portrait Mr Hammond
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Membership of the European economic area, which EFTA would entail, involves under current rules compliance with the four freedoms, and that means free movement of people, which the British people rejected in the referendum in 2016.

Tony Lloyd Portrait Tony Lloyd (Rochdale) (Lab)
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T5. With Carillion now the poster child for dodgy market capitalism, what duty does the Treasury owe to the wider public to prevent Government spending Ministers from engaging in inappropriate contracts, and what steps did the Treasury take?

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Debate between Lord Hammond of Runnymede and Tony Lloyd
Tuesday 18th July 2017

(7 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tony Lloyd Portrait Tony Lloyd (Rochdale) (Lab)
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Does the Chancellor accept that the confusion and conflicting ambitions of the Government’s policy on Brexit are already having an impact on investment? In the long run, that will be massively damaging to the economic prospects of this country.

Lord Hammond of Runnymede Portrait Mr Philip Hammond
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No, I do not accept that. However, I readily agree with the hon. Gentleman that, as I have said many times in the Chamber, the process of negotiating our exit from the European Union and then executing that exit is bound to create uncertainty, and uncertainty is always unwelcomed by business. The challenge for us is to secure as much certainty as possible as early as possible for business, and that is our focus.