Speeches by Glen.
Every Hansard contribution by John Glen this parliament, most recent first. Back to the MP page for the headline figures and analysed positions.
Showing 621–640 of 1,699 contributions · most-recent first
| Date | Debate & contribution | Words |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “Can I just go a little more into this point about speculation? For several weeks, probably several months, we had speculation about wealth taxes, changes to the way that property is taxed, changes to pensions, what would happen to the tax-free allowance and ISAs, to name but a few. As a Committee, we have to work out w…” | 151 |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “We got away with it this time, but we will not next time.” | 13 |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “You have all painted quite a challenging picture on productivity, despite some excellent questions from my colleagues. We have explored the quantum problem—how much—and then the measurement problem. I wanted to pick up on what you said about the issue of America and where it is different. Could you set out what the tra…” | 97 |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “Is there anything else any of you would like to say about what we could usefully import, apart from tech?” | 20 |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “I would just say this. I would be mindful of having a completely desk-based economist’s view of this. Look at the behaviour of The Entertainer. It sold its business at a lower multiple of what it could have got if it had sold it to somebody else. It did that so that it could preserve ownership for the people who had wo…” | 110 |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “That is what I was accused about on bounce back loans. I set up all the bounce back loans to protect all the businesses and then I was told that a good number of those businesses may have gone bust anyway. I was thinking, “What could I have done?”” | 49 |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “William Hague has pointed to a number of measures in the Budget around changes to VCTs and EIS limits, and to matters around knowledge-intensive companies. He suggested that those will have a positive effect. Have any of you done any work on quantifying the likely value of those changes to the economy?” | 52 |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “EIS, SEIS and VCT have hardly changed at all. They have been stable for several years. EOTs, or employee ownership trusts, have had their tax advantage halved, but they have been stable for a long time. Is it really fair to say that they have been changing a lot?” | 49 |
| 3 Dec 2025 | OBR: Resignation of Chair “Richard Hughes was a first-rate public servant, but he did the right thing on the narrow matter of the premature upload of the file last week. OBR representatives told us a number of things yesterday in the Treasury Committee. They told us that there was a £16 billion downgrade and £4.2 billion of headroom on 31 Octobe…” fiscal-policyeconomy-jobs | 154 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “The Employment Rights Bill was in ping-pong immediately before the Budget, but I suppose the U-turn on Wednesday, on first day rights, would vindicate your position on that. Is that right?” | 31 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “If you are talking about a 16% reduction in back office costs in the civil service in four years’ time, that is quite an ambitious number to aim for.” | 29 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “May I ask you about efficiencies in government? It seems to me that the Budget highlighted an additional £4.9 billion of efficiencies, building on what we had in the spending review, which I think was £14 billion. Can you tell us about your confidence level in achieving that? It is easy to project an extra 2% of NHS pr…” | 90 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “It feels rather different this time though, Mr Josephs.” | 9 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “Due to the very unfortunate pre-Budget leak, which had huge implications, Richard Hughes is not here today, but the truth is that that letter was about something completely separate from that event. It was about, essentially, the level of trust between Treasury officials and the OBR in the preparation of a Budget for o…” | 99 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “Not destructive tension.” | 3 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “But that was not the case?” | 6 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “What event precipitated that decision? You had seen weeks and months of characterisation of the OBR’s position in the media, presumably from leaks, which I think you have alluded to. What had not happened before that finally made that happen?” | 40 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “To go back to the letter, when did the OBR decide that it was going to signify in the EFO that it was going to write a letter?” | 28 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “I understand your characterisation of the bits that were missed out of the £4.2 billion, but surely there is a big difference between saying, “We need some extra headroom because £10 billion was too thin” and increasing taxes by £26 billion for many welfare measures?” | 45 |
| 2 Dec 2025 | Treasury Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 1349) “But that was not the justification given on that occasion, was it?” | 12 |