Rachel Reeves

It was the hon. Member’s Government, when they were on this side of the House, who froze those allowances, taking more money out of the pockets of wor...

This Government changed the fiscal rules at the Budget last year with a stability rule, so that for the first time we pay for day-to-day spending thro...

The irony is that the last Government made a lot of commitments but did not put any money into delivering them. That is the difference that this Gover...

I really welcome the fact that the right hon. Gentleman supports the investment that this Labour Government are making in transport and infrastructure...

At the spending review, we were able to build on the investment we had already made in Merseyside and Teesside with Track-1 of carbon capture and stor...

It was great to be with my hon. Friend in Warwickshire just a couple of weeks ago to welcome some of the investment, through our industrial strategy a...

As the hon. Lady knows, the changes we have made to the welfare Bill will mean that nobody who is currently receiving personal independence payments w...

I am not going to take lessons from the Conservatives: they increased taxes 25 times. When they increased taxes, it was always ordinary working people...

After backing Teesside and Merseyside for carbon capture and storage last year, we are really pleased today to be able to announce tranche 2, with bac...

I thank my hon. Friend for making those representations to me and to the Secretary of State for Transport on the importance of better rail connections...

Steel is one of the sectors that will benefit particularly from the trade deals this Government have secured, freeing ourselves of tariffs on steel go...

This deal is worth £5 billion to the UK economy, and it also benefits British workers being posted by their company to work in India. The Conservative...

The hon. Lady will know that in the Budget, at a cost of about £1.5 billion, we were able to extend business rates relief, which was due to end entire...

According to PwC’s global CEO survey—that is just one of the surveys—Britain is the second-best place in the world in which to invest, and that is wha...

My hon. Friend is a staunch defender of his constituency and region. We will make decisions at the spending review, which we will publish on 11 June, ...

I totally agree with the hon. Lady. The plans that we inherited from the Conservative party saw capital spending decline as a share of GDP, which is t...

I thought the hon. Gentleman was going to welcome the investment of Universal Studios in Bedfordshire, which will be a massive boon to the county’s ec...

That is an opportune question, because I will be meeting Lord Vallance this afternoon to discuss the work he is taking forward on the Ox-Cam corridor ...

I shall make sure that the Transport Secretary hears those requests, but the hon. Gentleman knows that our investment in British Steel, which will sav...

This Government have committed to increasing the proportion of civil servants who work in the north of England. But we already have a hub that we are ...