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Tuesday 25th April 2023 3 p.m.
Economic Affairs Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Bank of England: how is independence working?
At 3:00pm: Oral evidence
Rt Hon. George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer - former Chancellor of the Exchequer at --
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Tuesday 25th April 2023 3 p.m.
Economic Affairs Committee - Oral evidence
Subject: Bank of England: how is independence working?
At 3:00pm: Oral evidence
Rt Hon. George Osborne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer - former Chancellor of the Exchequer at --
Rt Hon Ed Balls - Former Shadow Chancellor
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Parliamentary Debates
Women’s State Pension Age
11 speeches (3,545 words)
Tuesday 26th March 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) In 2011, the then Chancellor, George Osborne, decided to accelerate the state pension age rises, giving - Link to Speech

Women’s State Pension Age
108 speeches (11,603 words)
Monday 25th March 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Liz Kendall (Lab - Leicester West) Against State Pension Inequality campaign was the Pensions Act 2011, in which the then Chancellor, George - Link to Speech
2: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) that real hardship was caused for some women in this age group in 2011 when the former Chancellor, George - Link to Speech

Armed Forces Readiness and Defence Equipment
100 speeches (27,955 words)
Thursday 21st March 2024 - Commons Chamber
Ministry of Defence
Mentions:
1: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) The lessons of George Osborne slashing the number of Type 45s in half have had a huge impact on naval - Link to Speech

Standards in Public Life (Codes of Conduct)
2 speeches (1,290 words)
1st reading
Wednesday 20th March 2024 - Commons Chamber

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) Even the former Chancellor George Osborne told the “Leading” podcast that“it would be a great…agenda - Link to Speech

Child Trust Funds
31 speeches (8,722 words)
Tuesday 19th March 2024 - Westminster Hall
Ministry of Justice
Mentions:
1: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) pop at the Liberal Democrats, who I am sure were responsible for scrapping it, but let us just blame George - Link to Speech

Spring Budget 2024
62 speeches (33,280 words)
Monday 18th March 2024 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (XB - Life peer) OBR in its excellent Fiscal Risks and Sustainability report—further proof, if any were needed, that George - Link to Speech
2: Lord Skidelsky (XB - Life peer) Had George Osborne not slashed public spending, the UK would have been in a much better fiscal position - Link to Speech
3: Lord Northbrook (Con - Excepted Hereditary) As the respected political commentator Andrew Pierce pointed out recently, when George Osborne announced - Link to Speech

Housing: Young People
35 speeches (18,671 words)
Thursday 14th March 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) quantitative easing, developed by the coalition Government in 2013 and euphemistically described by George - Link to Speech

National Insurance Contributions (Reduction in Rates) (No.2) Bill
69 speeches (21,473 words)
2nd reading
Wednesday 13th March 2024 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) George Osborne looked at that during his chancellorship, as did the Office of Tax Simplification—that - Link to Speech

Budget Resolutions
181 speeches (50,203 words)
Tuesday 12th March 2024 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) We all remember the productivity driver, George Osborne, so I say to Government Members: do not talk - Link to Speech
2: Maggie Throup (Con - Erewash) As former Chancellor George Osborne said:“It will be up to us to rebuild a pension system that has been - Link to Speech
3: Angus Brendan MacNeil (Ind - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) to 2008—perhaps not the crash but certainly the response to it and the fixation of then Chancellor George - Link to Speech

Budget Resolutions
140 speeches (45,032 words)
Monday 11th March 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) for them: the former Chancellor of the Exchequer—I had better name him, as there have been so many—George - Link to Speech
2: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) threatens similar damage to Labour’s climate change levy, from which ceramics was rightly exempted by George - Link to Speech

Budget Resolutions
206 speeches (46,853 words)
Thursday 7th March 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) A decade ago George Osborne—remember him?—stood in this place to deliver the first Tory Budget. - Link to Speech

Budget Resolutions
131 speeches (43,925 words)
Wednesday 6th March 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Julian Knight (Ind - Solihull) I would set a lot of the blame at the door of George Osborne and the public school, dyed-in-the-wool - Link to Speech
2: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) George Osborne created the circumstance under which the OBR almost sets the guidelines and the fiscal - Link to Speech

International Women’s Day: Language in Politics
51 speeches (14,610 words)
Thursday 29th February 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) Friend the Member for Gosport (Dame Caroline Dinenage), who had had George Osborne in front of her Committee - Link to Speech

Media Bill
90 speeches (44,454 words)
2nd reading
Wednesday 28th February 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Mentions:
1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) I know that my former colleague George Osborne and others have been very active, arguing that it is not - Link to Speech

Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report)
41 speeches (23,728 words)
Thursday 8th February 2024 - Lords Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) Of course, thanks to George Osborne, if you have private means you can now retire at around 55 with a - Link to Speech

Social Security
39 speeches (8,410 words)
Wednesday 31st January 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Nigel Mills (Con - Amber Valley) If any future Government want to do something different, they could just bring in a Bill, as George Osborne - Link to Speech

Dementia
27 speeches (8,109 words)
Thursday 18th January 2024 - Grand Committee
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Lord Warner (XB - Life peer) Despite legislation to implement our proposals, successive Chancellors from George Osborne onwards have - Link to Speech

High Speed 2 Compensation
44 speeches (12,210 words)
Thursday 18th January 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department for Transport
Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) he formulated on the back of a fag packet as a gimmick for the Labour manifesto, but unfortunately George - Link to Speech

NHS Dentistry
153 speeches (34,216 words)
Tuesday 9th January 2024 - Commons Chamber
Department of Health and Social Care
Mentions:
1: Wes Streeting (Lab - Ilford North) On his podcast, former Conservative Chancellor George Osborne said:“That really is the nanny-state in - Link to Speech

Elgin Marbles
28 speeches (8,629 words)
Thursday 14th December 2023 - Lords Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Lexden (Con - Life peer) Mr George Osborne, the current chairman of the British Museum trustees, has become the principal champion - Link to Speech
2: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) Our current Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has now become part of the story; George Osborne may be an even - Link to Speech
3: Lord Bassam of Brighton (Lab - Life peer) George Osborne has been very vocal on this point. - Link to Speech

Autumn Statement 2023
93 speeches (41,844 words)
Wednesday 29th November 2023 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) They will say that George Osborne promised this in 2007 and it was never delivered. - Link to Speech
2: Lord Lee of Trafford (LD - Life peer) First is the mistake that George Osborne made when he disallowed mortgage interest for landlords on their - Link to Speech

Housing in Tourist Destinations
43 speeches (14,561 words)
Tuesday 28th November 2023 - Westminster Hall
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) urgently need to look at the taxation inequalities between those two sectors that were introduced by George - Link to Speech

Autumn Statement Resolutions
144 speeches (48,091 words)
Monday 27th November 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Ranil Jayawardena (Con - North East Hampshire) inheritance tax threshold from £325,000 to perhaps £1 million, as was proposed by the former Chancellor, George - Link to Speech

International Development White Paper
21 speeches (6,915 words)
Thursday 23rd November 2023 - Lords Chamber
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) To their credit, David Cameron and George Osborne sustained that commitment, keeping Britain on the path - Link to Speech

King’s Speech
131 speeches (52,690 words)
Monday 13th November 2023 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) Osborne when he created the commission in 2015.I am afraid that everywhere we find evidence of Tory - Link to Speech
2: Lord Balfe (Con - Life peer) want to help them earn a bit more money.I will also give another challenge to the Government: in 2006, George - Link to Speech
3: Lord Desai (XB - Life peer) the case: giving tax incentives to investors has never led to investment.The nearest example is what George - Link to Speech

Debate on the Address
127 speeches (57,540 words)
Tuesday 7th November 2023 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) The wage freezes brought in by the former Chancellor George Osborne are now hitting and have, with the - Link to Speech

BBC Licence Fee Non-Payment (Decriminalisation for Over-75s) Bill
37 speeches (6,217 words)
2nd reading
Friday 20th October 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Reclaim - North West Leicestershire) Does he also recall that during charter renewal, the then Chancellor, George Osborne, negotiated away - Link to Speech

Regulatory Impact Assessments Bill
55 speeches (13,548 words)
2nd reading
Friday 20th October 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) who have been appointed by them.Of course, we know that this is the case because it goes back to what George - Link to Speech

Climate Change Policies
31 speeches (2,487 words)
Wednesday 20th September 2023 - Lords Chamber
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero
Mentions:
1: Baroness Young of Old Scone (LAB - Life peer) In 2015, George Osborne cancelled zero-carbon homes about six weeks before it was due to be implemented - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
166 speeches (9,694 words)
Monday 4th September 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) support the two-child policy and rape clause, does it give him comfort to know that when the “Ghost of George - Link to Speech

Camp Hill Line Railway Stations, Birmingham
25 speeches (4,451 words)
Wednesday 19th July 2023 - Westminster Hall
Department for Transport
Mentions:
1: Tahir Ali (LAB - Birmingham, Hall Green) Birmingham tramline connecting Birmingham airport through to the city centre was actually promised by George - Link to Speech

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
106 speeches (23,675 words)
Report stage
Tuesday 18th July 2023 - Lords Chamber
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Mentions:
1: None Some 12 years ago, in his 2011 Budget, George Osborne announced that he would pilot a land auction model - Link to Speech

Covid-19 Pandemic: Fiscal Policies
12 speeches (2,489 words)
Monday 17th July 2023 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Mary Kelly Foy (LAB - City of Durham) I was outraged by former Prime Minister David Cameron and former Chancellor George Osborne at the covid - Link to Speech

Financial Services Reforms
45 speeches (5,747 words)
Tuesday 11th July 2023 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Nick Smith (LAB - Blaenau Gwent) which is designed to help pensioners understand their pension’s performance, was promised by Chancellor George - Link to Speech

UK Economy: Growth, Inflation and Productivity
49 speeches (22,773 words)
Thursday 29th June 2023 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Eatwell (LAB - Life peer) In May of that year, the new Chancellor, George Osborne, reversed Darling’s policy and austerity killed - Link to Speech
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (LAB - Life peer) He said that George Osborne was going too far, too fast. - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
133 speeches (8,036 words)
Thursday 22nd June 2023 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) Has the Minister been looking at the evidence given by George Osborne and Oliver Letwin? - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
148 speeches (8,638 words)
Monday 19th June 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department for Work and Pensions
Mentions:
1: Nick Smith (LAB - Blaenau Gwent) Clear, accessible pension schemes information was a priority for former Chancellor George Osborne in - Link to Speech

Pride Month
83 speeches (23,152 words)
Thursday 15th June 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department for Business and Trade
Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (CON - Cities of London and Westminster) However, there were three Conservative MPs who rebelled and defied the Whip: George Osborne, David Cameron - Link to Speech

Cost of Living and Brexit
168 speeches (27,775 words)
Wednesday 14th June 2023 - Commons Chamber
Scotland Office
Mentions:
1: Mary Kelly Foy (LAB - City of Durham) The austerity policies of David Cameron and George Osborne hollowed out our welfare state and left us - Link to Speech

Financial Services and Markets Bill
13 speeches (3,234 words)
Report stage: Part 2
Tuesday 13th June 2023 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (CON - Life peer) London, and quite deliberately so, to the annoyance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time, George - Link to Speech

Teesworks: Accountability and Scrutiny
111 speeches (23,230 words)
Wednesday 7th June 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Mentions:
1: Andy McDonald (LAB - Middlesbrough) The Tees Valley Combined Authority was established in 2016 under the Chancellorship of George Osborne - Link to Speech

Short-term Holiday Lets: Planning
50 speeches (15,207 words)
Tuesday 23rd May 2023 - Westminster Hall
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Mentions:
1: Anthony Mangnall (CON - Totnes) I suspect that that is exactly what George Osborne thought he was doing in 2015 when he changed the tax - Link to Speech

Finance (No. 2) Bill (Fourth sitting)
120 speeches (21,539 words)
Committee stage: 4th sitting
Thursday 18th May 2023 - Public Bill Committees
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (LAB - Wallasey) It was set up by a previous Conservative Chancellor, George Osborne; I can use his name because he is - Link to Speech

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
141 speeches (41,000 words)
Committee stage
Thursday 18th May 2023 - Lords Chamber
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Mentions:
1: None The date of that article was 4 January 2012, and indeed in his 2011 Budget George Osborne announced that - Link to Speech

Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)
74 speeches (13,998 words)
Committee stage: 1st sitting
Tuesday 16th May 2023 - Public Bill Committees
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (LAB - Wallasey) dragging far more people into the means test for child benefit than even the Conservative Chancellor George - Link to Speech

Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill
29 speeches (7,687 words)
Committee stage
Thursday 11th May 2023 - Grand Committee
Home Office
Mentions:
1: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) Companies House and the British regime for cleaning up business in every kind of way, going back to George - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
134 speeches (9,312 words)
Wednesday 3rd May 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) That is why George Osborne called them economic “vandals” who created a “self-inflicted financial crisis - Link to Speech

Funding for Major Infrastructure Projects
36 speeches (10,674 words)
Wednesday 3rd May 2023 - Westminster Hall
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Stephen Hammond (CON - Wimbledon) I think in particular of the Great Western electrification upgrade, which the former Chancellor, George - Link to Speech

Oral Answers to Questions
124 speeches (9,015 words)
Wednesday 26th April 2023 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (LAB - Holborn and St Pancras) must do everything in their power to urgently evacuate UK nationals still trapped in Sudan.Yesterday, George - Link to Speech

Cost of Living Increases
122 speeches (22,665 words)
Tuesday 25th April 2023 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (LAB - Bootle) If we put the six-year chancellorship of George Osborne aside, we have had, on average, a new Tory Chancellor - Link to Speech

International Trade and Geopolitics
72 speeches (18,178 words)
Thursday 20th April 2023 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Darren Jones (LAB - Bristol North West) We all remember David Cameron and George Osborne telling us that the Conservatives would fix the roof - Link to Speech

Finance (No. 2) Bill
73 speeches (20,739 words)
Committee of the whole House (day 1)
Tuesday 18th April 2023 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) It is worth remembering why the then Chancellor, George Osborne, started to reduce corporation tax. - Link to Speech
2: Jacob Rees-Mogg (CON - North East Somerset) orthodoxy of an undynamic kind that is leading to the increase in corporation tax, when the evidence from George - Link to Speech

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
78 speeches (25,662 words)
Committee stage: Part 1
Tuesday 18th April 2023 - Lords Chamber
Leader of the House
Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (CON - Life peer) 2015, I was fortunate, or unfortunate, enough to attend a barbecue at No. 11 with the then Chancellor, George - Link to Speech

Finance (No. 2) Bill
119 speeches (35,782 words)
2nd reading
Wednesday 29th March 2023 - Commons Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Craig Mackinlay (CON - South Thanet) That was behind the thinking of George Osborne, a previous Chancellor. - Link to Speech

Illegal Migration Bill
243 speeches (46,587 words)
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House (day 1)
Monday 27th March 2023 - Commons Chamber
Home Office
Mentions:
1: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) In Australia, Parliament debates an annual cap; when David Cameron and George Osborne were running the - Link to Speech

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
188 speeches (44,932 words)
Tuesday 21st March 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Mentions:
1: Edward Miliband (LAB - Doncaster North) It was George Osborne, in the autumn statement of 2012. Remember him? - Link to Speech
2: Pat McFadden (LAB - Wolverhampton South East) It was, of course, George Osborne. That is how far they have moved. - Link to Speech

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
152 speeches (49,659 words)
Monday 20th March 2023 - Commons Chamber
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) It was allowed to wither on the vine, and was then reintroduced by George Osborne in 2015, but it is - Link to Speech

Budget Statement
38 speeches (29,623 words)
Thursday 16th March 2023 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) As history has shown, when George Osborne reduced corporation tax from 28% to 20% and then to 19%—he - Link to Speech

Relations with China: Xi Jinping Presidency
55 speeches (13,190 words)
Thursday 16th March 2023 - Westminster Hall
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) it.In my time as an MP, I have seen the UK move from the “golden era” espoused by David Cameron and George - Link to Speech

Budget Statement
18 speeches (12,243 words)
Thursday 16th March 2023 - Lords Chamber
HM Treasury
Mentions:
1: Lord Eatwell (LAB - Life peer) Now, in this Budget, he is reversing the damaging decision taken by Conservative Chancellor George Osborne - Link to Speech
2: Lord Howarth of Newport (LAB - Life peer) This Chancellor is more delicate in his language than his predecessor, George Osborne, but in the Budget - Link to Speech

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation
123 speeches (48,889 words)
Wednesday 15th March 2023 - Commons Chamber
Scotland Office
Mentions:
1: Barry Gardiner (LAB - Brent North) for Brent Central (Dawn Butler), my constituency neighbour, has been urging every Chancellor since George - Link to Speech
2: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) George Osborne told us that we had to reduce it from 29%, which would ensure increased revenues because - Link to Speech
3: Charlotte Nichols (LAB - Warrington North) First, far from being new, it was already tried and scrapped by George Osborne in 2016. - Link to Speech

Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
96 speeches (25,686 words)
Committee stage: Part 1
Monday 13th March 2023 - Lords Chamber
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) When George Osborne reached an agreement with Manchester City Council—without, I think, NHS England knowing - Link to Speech

Civil Service Impartiality
17 speeches (1,381 words)
Tuesday 7th March 2023 - Lords Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court (CB - Life peer) Gordon Brown’s ambassador to the City; he then resigned and turned up the next day as an adviser to George - Link to Speech

Civil Service Impartiality
119 speeches (9,469 words)
Monday 6th March 2023 - Commons Chamber
Cabinet Office
Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) He resigned in the same month that Lehman Brothers collapsed, only to join George Osborne as his economic - Link to Speech



Select Committee Documents
Wednesday 13th March 2024
Oral Evidence - Siemens Energy, Siemens Energy, and Siemens Energy

Securing the domestic supply chain - Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

Found: Q151 Derek Thomas: I would answer that question by saying that it was because the Government —George

Wednesday 13th March 2024
Oral Evidence - Rolls -Royce SMR, Rolls-Royce SMR, and Rolls-Royce SMR

Securing the domestic supply chain - Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

Found: Q151 Derek Thomas: I would answer that question by saying that it was because the Government —George

Wednesday 13th March 2024
Oral Evidence - Associated British Ports

Securing the domestic supply chain - Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

Found: Q151 Derek Thomas: I would answer that question by saying that it was because the Government —George

Friday 19th January 2024
Written Evidence - Harriet Grant
CBE0102 - Children, young people and the built environment

Children, young people and the built environment - Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee

Found: “We lost our bus service during the cuts [under chancellor George Osborne].

Wednesday 10th January 2024
Written Evidence - John Benson, and Phil Jones
DBP0098 - Defined benefit pension schemes

Defined benefit pension schemes - Work and Pensions Committee

Found: George Osborne at the Conservative Party Conference 2010 told the Country if the Conservatives

Wednesday 10th January 2024
Oral Evidence - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, and Department for Business and Trade

The performance of investment zones and freeports in England - Business and Trade Committee

Found: It also reflects work done under the coalition by David Cameron and George Osborne.

Tuesday 9th January 2024
Oral Evidence - Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Work of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office - Foreign Affairs Committee

Found: Q709 Graham Stringer: When you were Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, you and George Osborne—and

Wednesday 13th December 2023
Written Evidence - Transparency Task Force
UKR0056 - UK Regulators

UK Regulators - Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: lax policies on peer-to-peer lending were shaped by representations by the then Chancellor George

Tuesday 12th December 2023
Oral Evidence - National Infrastructure Commission, and National Infrastructure Commission

UK Regulators - Industry and Regulators Committee

Found: We came about with George Osborne, shortly after the election in May 2015, and we were established

Tuesday 28th November 2023
Oral Evidence - Vanguard Europe, Resolution Foundation, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Women's Budget Group

Treasury Committee

Found: We have not even seen that type of surplus during the George Osborne era of austerity, even though

Tuesday 28th November 2023
Oral Evidence - Office for Budget Responsibility, Budget Responsibility Committee, and Budget Responsibility Committee

Treasury Committee

Found: We know that, in 2010, George Osborne as Chancellor was able to reduce departmental spending in real

Monday 27th November 2023
Report - 1st Report - Making an independent Bank of England work better

Economic Affairs Committee

Found: Osborne), Q 76 (Martin Wolf) and Q 76 (Donald Kohn).

Monday 13th November 2023
Oral Evidence - 2023-11-13 16:00:00+00:00

Local authorities in financial distress - Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee

Found: It is eight years since George Osborne, as Chancellor, stood up at conference and said, “We’re going

Monday 13th November 2023
Oral Evidence - 2023-11-13 16:00:00+00:00

Local authorities in financial distress - Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee

Found: It is eight years since George Osborne, as Chancellor, stood up at conference and said, “We’re going

Thursday 9th November 2023
Written Evidence - Commex Foods Ltd
SMEF0076 - SME Finance

Treasury Committee

Found: against RBS / Natwest Group had been sown when the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Honourable George

Wednesday 8th November 2023
Oral Evidence - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

The work of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero - Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

Found: Chair: It seems, given you are blaming people in the past, that you will have very stern words about George

Friday 20th October 2023
Scrutiny evidence - Uncorrected oral evidence: Food (Promotion and Placement) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

Found: I think you will know yourself from your background working with Mr George Osborne that, if there is

Wednesday 18th October 2023
Oral Evidence - Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and National Museum Directors Council

Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Found: George Osborne: The short answer is yes.

Wednesday 18th October 2023
Oral Evidence - British Museum, and British Museum

Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Found: George Osborne: The short answer is yes.

Tuesday 17th October 2023
Oral Evidence - Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)

Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

Found: I think you will know yourself from your background working with Mr George Osborne that, if there is

Tuesday 19th September 2023
Written Evidence - Jag Patel
ELG0001 - Export-led growth

Export-led growth - Business and Trade Committee

Found: INTRODUCTION 1.It was the former Chancellor of the Exchequer in the coalition government, George Osborne

Wednesday 5th July 2023
Oral Evidence - Climate Change Committee

Environment and Climate Change Committee

Found: The hero of that was George Osborne; if he had not done what he did about offshore wind, we would not

Wednesday 5th July 2023
Oral Evidence - HM Treasury, and HM Treasury

Welsh Affairs Committee

Found: George Osborne when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer was very much a proponent of that view, with

Wednesday 28th June 2023
Oral Evidence - Generation Rent, Centrepoint, Crisis, University of Kent, National Residential Landlords Association, Propertymark, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and City of Edinburgh Council

Benefit levels in the UK - Work and Pensions Committee

Found: Professor Kemp: It was all part of those changes that George Osborne introduced.

Tuesday 20th June 2023
Report - Seventh Report - The Role of Non-Executive Directors in Government

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: Timothy CBE, at the Department for Education (2020–22); • Former aide to Chancellor of the Exchequer, George

Monday 19th June 2023
Written Evidence - Chartered Institute of Taxation
PTD0008 - Progress with making tax digital

Public Accounts Committee

Found: HMRC’s original vision and plans 4.1 In the March 2015 Budget, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George

Monday 19th June 2023
Written Evidence - Low Incomes Tax Reform Group
PTD0012 - Progress with making tax digital

Public Accounts Committee

Found: taxpayers. 1.2 When MTD was first announced in 2015 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George

Friday 16th June 2023
Report - Sixteenth Report - Tax Simplification

Treasury Committee

Found: The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) was established in July 2010. 15 The then Chancellor, George

Thursday 18th May 2023
Oral Evidence - Bank of England, Bank of England, and Bank of England

Quantitative tightening - Treasury Committee

Found: That agreement—it is in the letters between George Osborne and Mervyn King from the time—made clear

Tuesday 2nd May 2023
Oral Evidence - Deutsche Bundesbank, and Edward Chancellor

Independence of the Bank of England - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: Can I bring you back to what we were told last week by Ed Balls and George Osborne?

Tuesday 25th April 2023
Oral Evidence - Rt Hon Ed Balls, and Rt Hon George Osborne

Independence of the Bank of England - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: Rt Hon Ed Balls, and Rt Hon George Osborne Oral Evidence

Tuesday 18th April 2023
Oral Evidence - Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Defence Committee

Found: of the 2% pledge, and the Government agreed to a modest but significant uplift in spending, which George

Tuesday 28th March 2023
Oral Evidence - BBC

Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Found: Matt Hancock asked George Osborne for a nice headline in The Evening Standard .

Tuesday 28th March 2023
Oral Evidence - BBC

Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Found: Matt Hancock asked George Osborne for a nice headline in The Evening Standard .

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Oral Evidence - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee

Found: Then, thanks to George Osborne and others, we have seen the model grow across England and a greater

Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Oral Evidence - Office for Budget Responsibility, Office for Budget Responsibility, and Office for Budget Responsibility

Treasury Committee

Found: George Osborne was just trying to increase the return of capital in general by having a lower corporation

Tuesday 21st March 2023
Oral Evidence - HM Treasury, and HM Treasury

Economic Affairs Committee

Found: What you had was George Osborne as Chancellor saying that he wanted to reduce the headline rate of

Tuesday 21st March 2023
Written Evidence - Trades Union Congress
QT0011 - Quantitative tightening

Treasury Committee

Found: George Osborne for example pledged to “rebalance our economy from one built on debt to one built

Tuesday 21st March 2023
Oral Evidence - The Resolution Foundation, Institute for Fiscal Studies, University of Cambridge, and Institute for Employment Studies

Treasury Committee

Found: Torsten Bell: You can say what George Osborne was planning when he significantly reduced it, but that

Wednesday 15th March 2023
Oral Evidence - Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Mapping the path to net zero - Environmental Audit Committee

Found: Given that George Osborne launched a competition about eight years ago for something much the same

Tuesday 14th March 2023
Oral Evidence - Financial Times, The London School of Economics, and The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum

Independence of the Bank of England - Economic Affairs Committee

Found: I note that George Osborne referred to secondary objectives, but more recent letters use phrases such

Monday 13th March 2023
Correspondence - Correspondence from the Chair to the Chancellor, relating to the Office of Tax Simplification, dated 2 March

Treasury Committee

Found: You were in the Cabinet when George Osborne established the independent OTS.

Wednesday 8th March 2023
Correspondence - Letter to the Chair from ITV, Pact, Sky, Channel 4, BBC, Netflix, COBA and Paramount, dated 7 March 2023

A creative future - Communications and Digital Committee

Found: The HETV Tax Relief was introduced by George Osborne in 2013 to help stimulate investment in high quality

Tuesday 7th March 2023
Correspondence - Briefing note from the National Residential Landlord Association to the Committee concerning evidence given before the Committee on 5 September 2022

Reforming the Private Rented Sector - Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee

Found: results from section 24 of the finance act - a restriction on mortgage tax relief introduced by George

Wednesday 1st March 2023
Oral Evidence - Office of Tax Simplification, and Office of Tax Simplification

Treasury Committee

Found: I am old enough to remember when George Osborne set up the Office of Tax Simplification.



Parliamentary Research
Direct taxes: rates and allowances for 2024/25 - CBP-9993
Apr. 05 2024

Found: In the Conservative Government’s first Budget after the 2015 General Election, the then Chancellor George

The office and functions of the Prime Minister - CBP-9880
Mar. 15 2024

Found: In what the authors describe as a “typical fudge”, David Cameron appointed William Hague and later George

Finances of the Monarchy - CBP-9807
Nov. 27 2023

Found: ” George Osborne replied that “that is pretty unlikely and pretty theoretical, to be honest ”. 35 In

Non-Domestic Rating Bill 2022-23 - CBP-9773
Apr. 20 2023

Found: In 2014 -15 and 2015 -16, the then Chancellor, George Osborne, announced that the multiplier would be

Direct taxes: rates and allowances 2023/24 - CBP-9754
Apr. 06 2023

Found: In the Conservative Government’s first Budget after the 2015 General Election, the then Chancell or George

Mileage Allowance Payments - CBP-9742
Mar. 06 2023

Found: This change was originally announced in the Budget 2011 speech, when then Chancellor George Osborne



Bill Documents
May. 17 2023
Written evidence submitted by the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) - on clause 346 of the Bill, the abolition of the Office of Tax Simplification (FB06)
Finance (No. 2) Act 2023
Written evidence

Found: is that it has failed to prevent the tax system getting more complicated during the 12 years since George



Tweets
John McDonnell (Labour - Hayes and Harlington) - @johnmcdonnellMP
21 Mar 2023, 10:33 a.m.

Enjoy the irony of a think tank chaired by George Osborne advocating policy of land value taxation, which was in Labour’s last manifestos but @HJWetzel is right in that it would only work if it included a mechanism to ensure the fair distribution of resources to areas of need. https://t.co/uokv1lroYX

Link to Original Tweet


Department Publications - Transparency
Tuesday 5th September 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Source Page: Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission 69th annual report, 2021 to 2022
Document: Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission 69th annual report, year ending 30 September 2022 (PDF)

Found: Exchange Group David Schwimmer ; former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chairman of the British Museum George

Wednesday 12th July 2023
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Source Page: The British Museum annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023
Document: British Museum annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023 (PDF)

Found: George Osborne CH Chair of the TrusteesThe British Museum Report and Accounts 2022-232Structure, governance



Non-Departmental Publications - Transparency
Sep. 05 2023
Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission
Source Page: Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission 69th annual report, 2021 to 2022
Document: Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission 69th annual report, year ending 30 September 2022 (PDF)
Transparency

Found: Exchange Group David Schwimmer ; former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Chairman of the British Museum George

Jul. 19 2023
UK Government Investments
Source Page: UK Government Investments Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23
Document: UK Government Investments Annual Report and Accounts 2022-23 (PDF)
Transparency

Found: , Welfare and Pensions (2013-2017), Principal Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer George

Jul. 18 2023
Homes England
Source Page: Homes England Annual Report and Financial Statements 2022 to 2023
Document: Homes England Annual Report and Financial Statements 2022 to 2023 (PDF)
Transparency

Found: Melanie also worked as Speechwriter and Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George

Jul. 12 2023
British Museum
Source Page: The British Museum annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023
Document: British Museum annual report and accounts 2022 to 2023 (PDF)
Transparency

Found: George Osborne CH Chair of the TrusteesThe British Museum Report and Accounts 2022-232Structure, governance




George Osborne mentioned in Scottish results


Scottish Government Publications
Wednesday 13th March 2024

Source Page: Building prosperity through social solidarity and economic dynamism: First Minister's speech - 12 March 2024
Document: Building prosperity through social solidarity and economic dynamism: First Minister's speech - 12 March 2024 (webpage)

Found: speech warning about the austerity path his opposite number and, now of course, his podcast partner, George



Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe)
EU Emissions Trading System
Friday 5th April 2019
This briefing provides an overview of the EU Emissions Trading System, a carbon pricing policy central to the EU's action climate change. It covers the history, present functioning and planned reform of the policy and explores the options available to the UK after Brexit. This briefing also provides an account of UK and Scottish government policy to date, and the perspectives of key
View source webpage

Found: Commenting on the decision of former chancellor George Osborne to cap the CPF at £18/ tCO2, Senior Campaigner

Housing and Social Security
Monday 25th February 2019
This briefing considers the impact of housing related welfare reforms on landlords and tenants in Scotland. It sets these in the context of wider welfare reforms taking place across the UK.
View source webpage

Found: increase in the age to which the SAR applied (from age under 25 to age under 35) the then Chancellor George

Income Tax in Scotland: 2017 update
Wednesday 6th December 2017
This briefing provides information on income tax in Scotland, including legislation, recent policy developments, and facts and figures on Scottish taxpayer numbers, their incomes and income tax liabilities. It also discusses behavioural responses and includes modelling of illustrative changes to income tax in 2018-19.
View source webpage

Found: an assessment of the 50p rate and noted:23 In his 2012 Budget speech in March 2012, the Chancellor George



Scottish Parliamentary Debates
Budget (Scotland) (No 3) Bill
150 speeches (144,919 words)
Tuesday 27th February 2024 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Johnson, Daniel (Lab - Edinburgh Southern) summed up by what we have just heard: a desperate, flailing SNP speech—something akin to a second-rate George - Link to Speech

Budget Scrutiny 2024-25 (United Kingdom Context)
194 speeches (147,095 words)
Tuesday 12th December 2023 - Committee
Mentions:
1: None Previous fiscal targets that Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling and George Osborne set were tighter than - Link to Speech

Topical Question Time
29 speeches (16,834 words)
Tuesday 28th November 2023 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Arthur, Tom (SNP - Renfrewshire South) return of the UK Government austerity agenda—one that has an excess of the austerity that was pursued by George - Link to Speech

Challenge Poverty Week 2023
11 speeches (44,681 words)
Tuesday 24th October 2023 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Stewart, Kaukab (SNP - Glasgow Kelvin) George Osborne introduced the national living wage as the legal minimum amount that a worker can be paid - Link to Speech

Two-child Benefit Cap
152 speeches (118,372 words)
Wednesday 4th October 2023 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Chapman, Maggie (Green - North East Scotland) The attempts to turn George Osborne into a sort of national treasure reveal some terrifyingly short memories - Link to Speech

Scotland’s Finances and Wellbeing Economy
107 speeches (101,806 words)
Wednesday 19th April 2023 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Fraser, Murdo (Con - Mid Scotland and Fife) I think that members will remember Christine Lagarde apologising to George Osborne for getting it all - Link to Speech

Emergency Budget Review
32 speeches (30,969 words)
Wednesday 2nd November 2022 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Thomson, Michelle (SNP - Falkirk East) That the chancellor has taken advice from George Osborne, the architect of austerity, is no comfort on - Link to Speech

Budget Savings and Reductions 2022-23
78 speeches (51,338 words)
Thursday 29th September 2022 - Committee
Mentions:
1: Swinney, John (SNP - Perthshire North) I managed through the financial crash and the years of austerity under George Osborne and Danny Alexander - Link to Speech

United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund
90 speeches (108,705 words)
Wednesday 27th April 2022 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Lochhead, Richard (SNP - Moray) George Osborne, the former Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, has said that what is happening - Link to Speech
2: Lochhead, Richard (SNP - Moray) I noted previously that former Tory chancellor George Osborne has said that the current allocations are - Link to Speech

Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage
89 speeches (68,666 words)
Thursday 25th November 2021 - Main Chamber
Mentions:
1: Dunbar, Jackie (SNP - Aberdeen Donside) Is it not the case that, if George Osborne had not pulled the funding from the Peterhead carbon capture - Link to Speech
2: Adam, Karen (SNP - Banffshire and Buchan Coast) capture and storage competition, which was cancelled by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time, George - Link to Speech

Pre-budget Scrutiny 2022-23: Public Finances and the Impact of Covid-19
211 speeches (150,500 words)
Tuesday 14th September 2021 - Committee
Mentions:
1: None When she was supposed to arrive, she was on the telephone to George Osborne, who was then the UK Chancellor - Link to Speech