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Department: HM Treasury

Oral Answers to Questions

Toby Perkins Excerpts
Tuesday 16th November 2010

(14 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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George Osborne Portrait Mr Osborne
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We have created the independent Office for Budget Responsibility so that the fiscal forecasts for the United Kingdom are no longer produced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and sometimes influenced by the political judgments of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but instead are done independently.

Toby Perkins Portrait Toby Perkins (Chesterfield) (Lab)
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On child benefit, can the Chief Secretary explain why he believes that families earning £45,000 have broader shoulders than those earning £80,000?