Speeches by Baldwin.

“That is probably 4 million people who have, in that length of time, signed the petition. I encourage the hon. Member to dream on. Why have we seen the robust signing of these petitions over the past two years? It boils down to the fundamental principle of our democracy, which is based around peoples’ manifestoes. We ne…”

“Thank you, Sir Edward, for allowing me to speak on behalf of the 1,892 people in my constituency who have signed this petition. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) for expounding why this is an important debate. I am in my fifth Parliament now, and I do not recall the …”

“The hon. Member needs to be careful about what he says on that front, frankly. On taxes specifically, I do not think he can point to a single time in history where, in three months, there has been such a dramatic change from what was promised to the public in a general election campaign and what actually happened in th…”

“On a point of order, Dr Huq. Could you clarify whether it is in order for so many Government speakers in the debate to have left the Chamber before the Front-Bench speeches to listen to their beleaguered Prime Minister at the parliamentary Labour party meeting?”

“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Earlier the Minister said that agricultural property relief was not available under Margaret Thatcher. In fact, it was Margaret Thatcher’s Government who brought it in under the Inheritance Tax Act 1984, and it was subsequently increased to 100% under John Major. How might I g…”

“Worcestershire’s farmers have had to endure 14 months of sleepless nights over this policy before this partial U-turn. The Minister has hinted, at the Dispatch Box today, that he appreciates he will also have to U-turn on business property rates, because of the transitional relief coming off too quickly. Can he commit …”

“While the Home Secretary thinks about the safe and legal routes, my constituents are concerned about the unsafe and illegal routes. Will the Home Secretary update the House on how many gangs have been smashed in the first 18 months of this Government?”

“Could the Minister just spell out for the House’s benefit how much taxpayers’ money he has signed up to spending next year and in every year of this Parliament? On where Members of Parliament can read about value for money, which line item of the Budget has this money come out of?”

“If it were a private sector actor, you would have to investigate it for market abuse, would you not?”

“Turning to the senior managers certification regime, I wanted to ask Mr Alder the following hypothetical examples. There is a senior manager in a firm who makes a public statement to the market, and it subsequently turns out that that partial statement was an incomplete picture of the state of the firm at that time. So…”

“The angle of my question was, when things go wrong in that phase how do people get themselves out of that and back on their growth trajectory again?”

“In terms of the other matters that the FCA is responsible for progressing at the moment, I am particularly interested in the provisional licence framework and how you would deal with the situation where something went wrong for someone who had a provisional licence. Subsequently, we have quite a lot of challenger banks…”

“It would be quite helpful to know what parts we need to go through in Parliament, in a letter afterwards.”

“Is the provisional licence up and running?”

“You have completed all the workstreams that you needed to complete for the Leeds Reforms at the FCA and now you are waiting for legislation; is that correct?”

“I had a policing matter to discuss with the Ministers. I know that you will have covered some of what I am going to ask you about, but I am going to try to elicit some new information. In terms of the Leeds Reforms, I know you have covered progress that you have made on things like the provisional licences, consumer du…”

“My hon. Friend is making a fantastic speech, with some very colourful analogies, but if I may be prosaic, is it not the case that the Office for Budget Responsibility has not scored a single impact on growth in the overall Budget?”

“I am delighted to respond on behalf of the Conservatives, who have always championed British businesses. We believe very much in the ingenuity of our entrepreneurs, the skill of our engineers and the global reputation of our exporters. The Bill amends Acts dating from 1982 and 1991, and we believe that, time and again,…”

“I would like to pick up on some of the points made in today’s interesting debate and to reiterate that, as Conservatives, we have always stood shoulder to shoulder with Britain’s businesses and great exporters. In my opening remarks, I asked some questions of the Minister, and I look forward to hearing his replies. I t…”

“Last month in Business and Trade questions, I asked the Secretary of State to show some backbone and stand up to the Chancellor and say, “No more business taxes”. But he did not: far from permanently lower business rates, small and medium-sized businesses on our high streets are experiencing enormous rate hikes. Will t…”