Comprehensive Spending Review

Fiona Mactaggart Excerpts

Thursday 28th October 2010 Commons Chamber

[Danny Alexander]

So today’s debate also offers a challenge for Labour Members. I will be listening carefully to what they have to say, and I hope that the British public will receive a long-overdue apology for the mess that one party caused and which two parties have come together to clean up.

[Fiona Mactaggart (Slough) (Lab)]

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way—at last. He says that in order to be taken seriously, we need a plan. In order for him to be taken seriously, he needs to be truthful with people. I do not understand how he can claim that fairness is a principle of this comprehensive spending review when women have been hit twice as hard as men.