Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Alison McGovern Excerpts
Tuesday 1st December 2015

(8 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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George Osborne Portrait Mr Osborne
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I will not get into the debate about our membership of the European Union, but what I would say is that—thanks to the hard negotiating of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister—we have cut the EU budget.

Alison McGovern Portrait Alison McGovern (Wirral South) (Lab)
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By some mistake, there does not seem to be any question on the deficit on the Order Paper—[Interruption]—apart from the very interesting question we have just had. Can I ask the Chancellor the question he would not answer in response to the autumn statement: does he believe that by the time he leaves the Treasury for the last time, he will have finally dealt with our country’s deficit?

George Osborne Portrait Mr Osborne
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That is certainly the plan.