Finance (No. 4) Bill Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Finance (No. 4) Bill

Adrian Bailey Excerpts
Thursday 19th April 2012

(12 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Ben Gummer Portrait Ben Gummer
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My hon. Friend represents a seat with a huge personal vote. I was not lucky enough to take over from a Conservative Member of Parliament with a huge personal vote such as his. I was therefore targeted in the last few weeks of the campaign by the Labour party and its union friends, who issued a series of postcards claiming that we would abolish the winter fuel allowance, free TV licences and all those other things. It is a matter of great pride to me that even in coalition, when compromises must be made, those promises, made by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, were kept.

Adrian Bailey Portrait Mr Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West) (Lab/Co-op)
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Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Ben Gummer Portrait Ben Gummer
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If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I would like—