Speeches by Reeves.

“One of the things that we are going to be doing, Chair, is a zero-based review for every Department as part of the next phase of the spending review, which I think is really important. Obviously, we did phase 1 of the spending review last week alongside the Budget but, to be honest, that was quite a quick spending revi…”

“I didn’t know I had a choice.”

“There is no time to waste. We are publishing the White Paper because we know how important that is and we have been working on that over the summer and into the autumn. It would be better for me to come back once that is published to give more evidence on it, but as you can see, that is a crucial part of our growth age…”

“But I expect all of us who use the NHS—either ourselves or our children—have had, in the last couple of months, a letter through the post from the NHS. They probably have our email, so we need to make sure that we are improving the use of technology to reduce costs and, indeed, to improve service to patients.”

“The £22.6 billion is day-to-day spending, but we have also announced £3.1 billion of additional capital investment in the health service next year. That is really important, because unless you are working with modern diagnostic equipment and you have NHS settings that are able to provide healthcare, you are not going t…”

“I am very happy to come back after the White Paper is published and answer more questions, and I am sure that the Work and Pensions Secretary would be happy to do that with the relevant Select Committee as well. I think that is a really important point. We all know that you cannot just spend your way to better public s…”

“I think it is really important, because getting people back to work cannot be something that the DWP is going to achieve alone.”

“We are only four months in, so ask us again in a year how it is going.”

“One of the things that I am really pleased about with the White Paper is that it is not just from the DWP, but something we have worked on across Government. That is the value of the mission boards, because they encourage that cross-team working. It has always been a criticism of Government that it works in silos, and …”

“The first year of this Government, so to July. We will be able to deliver those 40,000 additional appointments a week by then. As I said in answer to the question from Yuan Yang, we will be publishing the “Get Britain Working” White Paper in the next couple of weeks.”

“It would not be right for the NHS to prioritise people based on whether they are in work or able to get back to work. However, we have had a commitment from the NHS that the money we made available in the Budget last week will enable us to meet our commitment of 40,000 additional NHS appointments every single week, tak…”

“Thank you for asking that question as well. There is a section in the autumn Budget document about women in the economy, which I am really pleased about. I will not be able to find it now, but it is about the impact that our policies are having on women in the economy. It is still the case that women do the majority of…”

“Thank you for your question. Now I get to spend even more time in beautiful Darlington, because of our economic campus there. As I said in answer to an earlier question, the growth mission board will meet there later this month. It is fantastic that, because of that campus, we have civil servants who otherwise I don’t …”

“That is a question, really, for the OBR to answer. Our job is to develop the right policies and give evidence to the Office for Budget Responsibility about the impact that they can have on potential growth in our economy. I am determined to stretch all the levers, whether on planning, on skills, on labour markets or on…”

“Thank you very much for that question and for your kind words. The output gap is a measurement at a point in time, as you know. It comes back to my answer to Dame Meg’s question about what opportunities there are to grow the economy. We want to grow the UK economy through what I describe as modern supply-side policies …”

“The R&D budget next year is £20 billion; that is significant investment in research and development. And in the second phase of the spending review, which we will set out in the spring of next year, we will set 10-year budgets for R&D and other capital spending to give that longer-term certainty. On Friday last week, j…”

“I have to say a couple of things. We are keeping it flat as a share of GDP, so it is growing in real terms, over the course of this Parliament, in line with GDP. It is £100 billion of additional investment. I think that is the responsible path. There are obviously guardrails on our investment rule around how we can inv…”

“We have not had the chance to meet before, but I am very much looking forward to working with you and taking questions from you in this Committee. You had evidence yesterday from Richard Hughes and I think he noted that the gilt market response was just a response to higher volumes of gilt issuances. He added that gilt…”

“In the election campaign and the manifesto, we set out the two fiscal rules. The first was to balance day-to-day spending with tax receipts, and the second was to get debt down as a share of our economy. I do take very seriously the importance of ensuring that markets understand Government policy and the profile of Gov…”

“Yes—so I regularly meet both the Debt Management Office and the Governor of the Bank of England; I have met both since the Budget and I talk to them regularly. I am sorry—I have met the chief executive of the DMO since the Budget, and I have spoken to the Governor of the Bank of England. The week before the Budget, I h…”