Oral Answers to Questions

Ed Balls Excerpts

Wednesday 4th February 2015 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

I am very much looking forward to explaining how our long-term economic plan will really benefit and continue to benefit Yorkshire and north-east Lincolnshire. My hon. Friend is absolutely right: we have got employment up by 114,000 since the election; private sector employment is up by almost 200,000 since the election. [Interruption.]

[Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood) (Lab/Co-op)]

Come to Morley and Outwood.

[The Prime Minister]

The shadow Chancellor says come to Morley and Outwood. Believe me, I will be there, and I am afraid to say I have a plan to increase unemployment in that constituency by one, to give him a bit more time to remember a single business man who supports him.

Oral Answers to Questions

Ed Balls Excerpts

Wednesday 12th June 2013 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

My hon. Friend makes a good point. It is this Government who are putting aggressive tax avoidance at the heart of the G8 agenda, and what do we hear this week from the Labour party? It gives tax avoidance advice to its donors. That is what it has been doing: £700,000 of tax has been avoided because of what Labour advised its donor to do.

[Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood) (Lab/Co-op)]

Calm down.

Oral Answers to Questions

Ed Balls Excerpts

Wednesday 12th January 2011 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

I thank my hon. Friend for what he says. There are no simple answers. We face an enormously dangerous terrorist threat, and it is a threat that the British judicial system has struggled to meet. I think that all parties—including the Labour party, funnily enough—have the same goal. The reason we have all talked about reviewing control orders is that we want to ensure that the answer that we come up with is good for liberty and good for security.

[Ed Balls (Morley and Outwood) (Lab/Co-op)]

indicated assent.

[The Prime Minister]

I can see the shadow Home Secretary nodding, and I hope that we can reach all-party agreement on this important issue.