Budget Changes Debate

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Rachel Reeves

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European Council
Monday 21st March 2016

(8 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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My hon. Friend has a point. We have had assurances about not playing politics once or twice before from the shadow Chancellor. I am not sure he has always delivered on that.

Rachel Reeves Portrait Rachel Reeves (Leeds West) (Lab)
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Last week’s Budget makes the 2012 omnishambles Budget look like a model of good policy making. Can the Financial Secretary confirm that the Red Book is still the basis for the Budget and, if it is, that the £4.4 billion cut to disability benefits still stands?

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.

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