Amendment of the Law

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am 4:57 pm ar 29 Mawrth 2011.

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Photo of Liam Byrne Liam Byrne Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 4:57, 29 Mawrth 2011

Well, let us go through it, shall we? The deficit plan that we put in place would have involved £57 billion-worth of discretionary action—[ Interruption. ]

Will the Secretary of State just pause for a moment? I know that he has read all 40 pages of chapter 6 of the Budget that was published in March last year, but let me just remind him of their contents: £57 billion-worth of discretionary action; £19 billion-worth of tax rises; and £38 billion of cuts, £18 billion of which would have fallen on capital, and £20 billion of which would have fallen on current expenditure, of which £12 billion would have fallen in Whitehall, £5 billion would have fallen on lower priority projects and £3 billion would have been achieved through a pay freeze and asking public sector workers to—