Speeches by Baldwin.

“The resources it has are not locked either, are they? The Chancellor could choose to reduce those resources.”

“Professor Clift, could there be efficiency savings for the Office for Budget Responsibility if it took a market consensus and a market consensus of interest rates instead of developing its own forecast and then focused its edge and independence on the rigorous extra resources needed to evaluate—independent of Treasury—…”

“I am curious about the details as I have been raising this issue on behalf of my constituents in West Worcestershire all week, many of whom rely on heating oil and liquefied petroleum gas. How much extra money is going into the crisis and resilience fund in West Worcestershire, and how will local authorities prevent “f…”

“Of course, there are lots of well-paid jobs in the steel sector. In fact, the taxpayer is now subsidising every job at British Steel to the tune of £110,000. Can the Secretary of State update the House on how his negotiations are going with Jingye, and on when he will finally publish his long-awaited steel strategy?”

“There was a new private sector investor in the Royal Mail last year. As we heard yesterday in the House, the regulator has let the universal service obligation slip, so will the Minister update the House on how his colleague’s meeting with the regulator went yesterday?”

“Has anyone else heard of anything that is being used as a potential solution by HMRC?”

“This will be a particularly vulnerable group of people: elderly pensioners on very low incomes.”

“Moving on to the Institute for Government’s analysis, one thing in the statement last week was that another million people of pensionable age who rely exclusively on the state pension will be brought into paying personal taxation because of thresholds being frozen. I wonder about that, from an administrative point of v…”

“Have you seen any behavioural changes around the non-domicile tax changes at all?”

“Ms Mehta, your firm manages money for lots of wealthy people. Has your business seen a behavioural response among your clientèle? Obviously, I do not want you to give any confidential information or say anything that is not public.”

“That leads right into my question. When there is so much anecdotally about a millionaire leaving the UK every 45 minutes and a giant exodus of wealthy people, it is extraordinary that there does not seem to be any data about the mix of net migration and about how much people are paying. Are you saying that you have not…”

“You do not think it is putting anyone off employing anyone at the moment, while it is uncertain.”

“While we are on the subject of unemployment, I have a question for Mr Josephs. I remember you scored the planning reforms as being a boost to the economy. Have you scored the Employment Rights Act at all in your work?”

“No, it could be young people on a high income who decide to go somewhere else where they might pay less tax. I just wondered whether you had asked the question.”

“Many of my rural constituents, who are often pensioners, rely on heating oil. They are looking at £1,000 extra to fill up their tank this week. Some of that may be price gouging, but it is mainly the price. Is your advice to them to just wait until things have de-escalated to fill up their tank, if they are very low?”

“We can certainly now end by asking for the Minister’s plan in terms of—”

“Thank you, Mr Speaker, for granting this urgent question. I congratulate the hon. Member for Blyth and Ashington (Ian Lavery) on securing it. We can see from the number of Members who are interested in this topic just how serious it is across all our constituencies. I can testify to the fact that I have had an enormous…”

“It is not just bad practice, though: it is an increase in price, isn’t it?”

“Has that forecast proved accurate?”

“Chancellor, we have heard from the Office for Budget Responsibility that more Brits are leaving the UK. Anecdotally, you hear people use phrases like, “There’s a millionaire leaving the UK every 45 minutes.” We have also heard that there is very little data on the tax paid by those leaving and the tax paid by those com…”