Budget Changes Debate

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Mark Spencer

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Budget Changes

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European Council
Monday 21st March 2016

(8 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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What is very clear from the plans that we have set out is that by the end of this Parliament we are on course to deliver a budget surplus that would have never happened if we had followed Labour’s plans.

Mark Spencer Portrait Mark Spencer (Sherwood) (Con)
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Some 600,000 small businesses will benefit from the rate relief cut. Will the Financial Secretary continue to support those small businesses, which generate the jobs for those people who want to work and generate the tax to support those people who cannot?

David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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Absolutely. I can give that assurance. This is a Government who are on the side of businesses—businesses that create the growth and jobs that we need—and the biggest threat to our recovery is the anti-business approach that we see from the Opposition.

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