Nusrat Ghani MP: speeches

Speeches

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  I call the Father of the House.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Order. Mr Vince! And Mr Thompson, you are so enthusiastic that I was worried a moment ago that you would knock Mr Waugh off his seat. We need to calm down and breathe, and we need to ensure that we can hear the Leader of the Opposition.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Order. The Chief Whip in particular knows that we do not allow clapping in the Chamber.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Just shy of 60 Members wish to contribute, so there is a speaking limit of 10 minutes to begin with.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Order. Colleagues are now permitted to make interventions, which a Back Bencher may accept or decline them.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Order. You are a senior Member of the House, and I made it very clear earlier that no interventions should be made on party leaders.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  I call the leader of the Liberal Democrats.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  I call the Leader of the Opposition.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Order. Colleagues need most definitely to simmer down: just breathe a little and allow the Leader of the Opposition to be heard.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Order. The hon. Member used the term “you”. Perhaps focusing, and looking at the Chair, will stop colleagues from doing so.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Order. The speaking limit is now eight minutes.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Order. Can colleagues who are exiting the Chamber do so swiftly and quietly, so that we can focus on the Leader of the Opposition?

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Order. How on earth can “you” do that? We cannot start off these four days of Budget debate with the words “you” and “your”. Come to your conclusion quickly and using the right language.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Order. I will remind colleagues that interventions must be short and to the point, and must be an actual question, not a statement.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Budget Resolutions · Hansard source

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  Order. Conservative colleagues are drowning out the Leader of the Opposition’s speech, so just be mindful that nobody at home will be able to hear her.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source

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  Order. It is very hard to hear the Chancellor over all the shouting. Mr Holmes, you promised me yesterday that you would be on your top behaviour in the first few minutes. I call the Chancellor.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source

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  Order. There is far too much noise, far too much excitement. People need to calm down a little.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source

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  Order. Our constituents want to hear the Chancellor.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source

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  Order. The noise is far too high.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source

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  Order. There is far too much noise. I expected so much better from you, Dr Luke Evans; you are meant to be a leader in your community. Simmer down.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source

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  Order. We do not need commentary from the Back Benches. Mr Dewhirst, you are so loud; it is remarkable how far your voice carries.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source

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  Before I call the Chancellor, I will make a short statement. For a number of weeks, and yet again yesterday, there have been extensive briefings to the media on the Government’s fiscal policy and public finances. This disappointing trend in relation to Budget briefings has been growing for a number of years under successive Governments, but it appears to have reached an unprecedented high. Weeks ago, we saw the Chancellor delivering a speech in Downing Street setting the scene for the Budget, and specific policy announcements have been briefed out to the media in advance of today’s financial statement. [ Interruption. ] I do not need any help from Members. It seems that just a moment ago, the Office for Budget Responsibility’s analysis appeared online. This all falls short of the standards that the House expects. The premature disclosure of the contents of the Budget has always been regarded as a supreme discourtesy to this House and to all the democratically elected Members, not to mention to Mr Speaker, and to me, the Chairman of Ways and Means. The Government’s own “Ministerial Code” cannot be clearer. Paragraph 9.1 states: “When Parliament is in session, the most important announcements of Government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament.” I have always upheld the right of this House and its Members to be treated with respect, and to be the first to hear major Government policy announcements on behalf of their constituents. As Chairman of Ways and Means, I have responsibility for overseeing the House’s consideration of the Budget statement and the ensuing resolutions; that is described in paragraph 36.33 of “Erskine May” as “the most important business of Ways and Means.” I want hon. Members on both sides of the House to have adequate opportunity to hold the Chancellor to account, rather than their hearing and reading about new policies daily in the media. Like many, I expected better. Before I call the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I remind hon. Members that copies of the Budget resolutions will be available to them in the Vote Office in Members’ Lobby at the end of the statement, and online. I also remind hon. Members that interventions are not taken during the Chancellor’s statement, nor during replies from the Leader of the Opposition or the Leader of the Liberal Democrats. I call the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source

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  We now come to the motion entitled “Income Tax (Charge)”. It is on this motion that the debate will take place today and on the succeeding days. The questions on this motion and on the remaining motions will be put at the end of the Budget debate on Tuesday 2 December. I call the Chancellor of the Exchequer to move the motion formally.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source

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  Order. Mr Rankin and Ms Morton, your voices carry right across the Chamber—try to take a breath every so often.

• 26 Nov 2025 · Financial Statement and Budget Report · Hansard source

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  Order. It is so noisy in here we can barely hear the Chancellor. Everybody needs to calm down.