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Chris Elmore Excerpts

Tuesday 20th June 2023 Commons Chamber

[The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (John Glen)]

Controlling public spending and ensuring that the interventions we are making prioritise growth enablement is a relentless activity. The household support fund of £2.5 billion continues to be an additional source of support for households, but there are no quick fixes; there is a relentless pursuit of the goals that we have set out at the start of this year.

[Chris Elmore (Ogmore) (Lab)]

T5.   How on earth can the Chancellor begin to understand the worries of ordinary homeowners when it would seem that in 2018 it slipped his mind to declare that he had spent £3.5 million buying seven luxury flats in Southampton as an investment opportunity? Is the reality not that he and the Treasury Front-Bench team are completely out of touch with what homeowners are facing?

[Jeremy Hunt]

With respect to the hon. Gentleman, he should get his facts right before making that kind of suggestion. He got them wrong.