Speeches by Baldwin.

“The Economic Secretary may want to have a look at Hansard and make sure she got the right soundbite on the record about the 10 months of wage growth and the comparison. My understanding is that wage growth was indeed slow after the financial crash. We tried to compensate for that by increasing personal allowances, but …”

“I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Sir Andrew Mitchell) for securing this urgent question on the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. I welcome the leadership steps that the UK Government are taking, but will the Minister tell the House what conversations are being had with both the African Uni…”

“But all other things being equal, if the Chancellor does not make a decision in this year’s fiscal event, fuel duty will go up 5p next spring.”

“What year is that, just for my understanding?”

“What year is that?”

“Another place where we will suddenly start losing revenue is fuel duty. In your current numbers and projection, when does the temporary 5p reduction in fuel duty end?”

“Clearly, a Chancellor will have to do something about that.”

“Yes, and when will the inflection point be where it has such a major impact on the number of petrol cars on the road that Chancellors are going to have to step in and do something?”

“What you scored for—anecdotally—the inheritance tax changes, which seem to be having the biggest impact in terms of people’s location decisions, was 0.1 every year, in terms of the net figure. So it is not a huge revenue inbound, but you do not have any way that you can pull the emergency cord and warn the Treasury abo…”

“What I am hearing you say is that they could all have left by the time you get the actual numbers.”

“From HMRC?”

“When I read your fiscal risks and sustainability report this time, I immediately thought of that Hemingway quote about how you go bankrupt: in two ways—gradually, then suddenly. I thought that the report looked like we had entered the “suddenly” phase. I wanted to ask you about one of the things that you scored in your…”

“My hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. Does she agree that, as a result of that Bill, one of the things that is most shocking is that in due course it will actually pay someone more to be on welfare than to work full time on the minimum wage?”

“The Home Secretary is an intelligent woman, and she must realise that this UK-France migration co-operation is a drop in the ocean, given that since it was announced, another 1,375 people have made that dangerous and illegal crossing. She might not like Rwanda, but can she confirm that one of the other things she is wo…”

“I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement. The Post Office really is the Heineken of Government services: it reaches parts of the UK that other arms of government do not. The Post Office is much more than a business; it is a vital part of the UK’s social and economic fabric. It connects communities, suppo…”

“Thank you very much for that. Could you all look into whether you could write to me about Tenbury Wells businesses, and whether your businesses were prepared to insure them? We have had some input from Which?, the consumer organisation, about the wording in some of your flood policies, and arguing about the use of the …”

“You would not be prepared to insure them without the investment in the flood defences.”

“What should I say to these businesses?”

“It is not something you are advocating at the moment, then.”

“This is businesses and public buildings.”