Mary Macleod
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EU Budget (Surcharge)
Mary Macleod Excerpts(10 years, 1 month ago)
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Mr Osborne
We were presented with a bill for £1.7 billion and we are going to pay about £850 million, so in my book that is a cut.
Mary Macleod (Brentford and Isleworth) (Con)
May I congratulate the Chancellor on the excellent deal that he has achieved in Europe? As a better woman than me once said, there is no such thing as Government money, only taxpayers’ money. Does he agree that the people who benefit from this negotiation are hard-working British taxpayers?
Mr Osborne
My hon. Friend is right. Of course, this is not the Government’s money: it is the people’s money—taxpayers’ money. People work very hard to earn money and then they pay taxes on it, and it is the policy of the Conservative party to keep taxes as low as possible.