Speeches by Reeves.

“We have to make sure that we have a system that works, but we are committed to do that.”

“It is easier to do those sorts of models where there is an income stream than in areas where there is not. I think there is some role. In the NHS, in primary care, the Health Secretary is looking at some options. But other areas—for example, the lower Thames crossing—will be primarily privately funded. Similarly, the i…”

“Yes, they are more obvious places.”

“It is not just pump-priming; it is providing some of those basic services, but also things like Northern Powerhouse Rail or the Ox-Cam corridor. There is a role for Government in making sure the infrastructure is in place to connect people and jobs, to build the housing and to make sure you have the reservoirs and the …”

“I am open-minded, but we have absolutely got to learn the lessons from the past. The Department of Health and Social Care has come up with some proposals around primary care. We are interested in working with it on those, but we are primarily pursuing that approach in areas where there is a clear income stream and wher…”

“Two million pounds. Those are all highly progressive measures, and you can see that in all the distributional analysis that the Treasury and others have done. We have done the things that we want to do as a Government, but obviously we will always keep these under review. The other thing I should say we have done, whic…”

“We have got to grow the economy, and that is the No. 1 mission of this Government, but it has got to be felt in the pockets of ordinary people in Worthing, in Hackney, in Leeds West and Pudsey—in all parts of the country. That means more good jobs, paying decent wages, that you can afford to raise a family on. That is …”

“It is absolutely part of the strategy. It is a partnership approach between Government and business. There are some things that business cannot do. Businesses do not fund the basic R&D. They do not fund the universities, the skills or the health service, which makes sure we have a healthy workforce.”

“A lot of that is also with regard to the treatment of non-dom taxation. There was a worry that people would find loopholes to avoid the changes in the non-dom tax regime, but trusts have been incorporated into that—that is one example.”

“The Office for Budget Responsibility in their current forecast do expect it to not apply from Q3 next year. As David Miles and Tom Josephs said to the Committee yesterday, if this de-escalates, there is no reason why the forecast might not be correct for next year, in which case the energy profits levy falls away. That…”

“From the beginning of April, the new state pension is going to go up by £575 a year, and over the course of this Parliament, it is forecast that the new state pension will be £2,000 a year higher by the end of the forecast, because of this Government’s commitment to the triple lock. The previous Government froze the in…”

“With respect, Mr Glen, we saw the number of people not in education, employment or training under the last Conservative Government increase by more than 100,000. That was not because of greater protections at work and increases in people’s wages; in fact, living standards went backwards in the last Parliament. I just d…”

“There are more people in employment now than there were when Labour came into office. Partly, that reflects a reduction in the inactivity rate. I think there have only been three years in the last 50 years where the employment rate has been higher than it is today. It is, of course, welcome that people are putting them…”

“I don’t believe in a trickle-down economic theory of growth, where you make better-off people a bit better off and eventually that affects the ordinary person in your Basingstoke constituency or my Leeds West and Pudsey constituency. I believe that growth comes from the bottom up, and the middle out, and that if workin…”

“Thank you very much for that story. I think all of us will have in our mind somebody we have met. I remember meeting a woman a long way from my constituency, down on the south coast in Worthing. Between her and her husband they had five or six jobs; they had a young child and lived in private rented accommodation. The …”

“The Department for Education has been working for a while on reform through the schools White Paper, including for children with special educational needs. We hear about that every week in Parliament, whether at Prime Minister’s questions or something else. Every week in all our surgeries, parents come to see us about—…”

“It was not my job to work out the funding need; the policy is for the Department for Education to work through. But we made a decision as a Government to fund that fully, based on the money that the Department for Education felt was needed to fully fund it. What I would say to parents is that this has been widely consu…”

“It is already the case that most pensioners with any form of private income are taxed. We want, of course, to make that as simple as possible but, over the course of this Parliament—when we are in office—we will not be taxing people whose only income is from the new state pension.”

“First of all, I remember you previously talking about your constituent and special educational needs in this Select Committee, and I thank you for sharing that story. It is the sort of story that we hear from our constituents—because, as well as being Chancellor of the Exchequer, I am also a constituency MP and somebod…”

“I will say it then. [Laughter.] We have to design the scheme and make sure it functions properly.”