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Urgent question on Monday, 12 October 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Vincent Cable. The answering member was Liam Byrne.

Sale of Government Assets

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
497 c23 
Session
2008-09
Department
Treasury
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Liam Byrne | 497 c23 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for the opportunity to come here this afternoon and answer questions about t...
Vincent Cable | 497 c23 (Link to this contribution) (Urgent Question): To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on the propose...
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Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 497 c24-5 (Link to this contribution) How telling that at the end of the Prime Minister’s summer of denial, instead of following the Conse...
Liam Byrne | 497 c28 (Link to this contribution) I would define a fire sale as selling things for substantially less than we think we could secure fo...
Hywel Williams | 497 c28 (Link to this contribution) On 29 June, the Prime Minister said that the £16 billion would be redirected to public investment. W...
Philip Dunne | 497 c27 (Link to this contribution) How much have the Government pencilled in from sales of leisure centres owned by local authorities, ...
Liam Byrne | 497 c28 (Link to this contribution) The programme that we are putting before the House now, and which we will put before the House in mo...
Liam Byrne | 497 c26 (Link to this contribution) Again, the precise way in which the different assets are sold will have to be the subject of further...
Vincent Cable | 497 c23-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for calling this urgent question. It is Parliament’s first day back, and we ...
Jim Devine | 497 c26 (Link to this contribution) May I just clarify things? We have consistently made a commitment to the racing industry that if we ...
Ben Wallace | 497 c26 (Link to this contribution) In 2001 and 2005, the Government made a manifesto pledge that they would nationalise the Tote in ord...
Liam Byrne | 497 c26 (Link to this contribution) There will be many different questions on each of the assets. In some cases, the sale of the assets ...
Liam Byrne | 497 c26 (Link to this contribution) The announcement today has done nothing to disturb the policy commitments that have already been mad...
Liam Byrne | 497 c27 (Link to this contribution) The figures on local authority asset sales that have been put before the House this afternoon are pr...
Liam Byrne | 497 c28 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the second question is yes. The answer to the first question is, as I said to my right...
Liam Byrne | 497 c23-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the question and for his renewed interest. I know that that ...
Liam Byrne | 497 c28 (Link to this contribution) There are some limits that even I must observe.
Bob Russell | 497 c27 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister confirm that his brief fails to alert him to the common sense of hon. Members on b...
Jim Cousins | 497 c28 (Link to this contribution) Does the programme of disposals include all or part of the business of Northern Rock?
Peter Bottomley | 497 c26 (Link to this contribution) Columns 586 to 588 in Hansard on 9 July 1987 contain the acceptance by the Labour spokesman that the...
Andrew Mackinlay | 497 c26 (Link to this contribution) What does the brief say about the Thurrock-Dartford toll in relation to the fact that it is lawful t...
David Winnick | 497 c28 (Link to this contribution) With all these public assets due to be sold off, may we be reasonably satisfied that at least the Pa...
Liam Byrne | 497 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the Government’s position on the sale of the Tote has changed in essence. The me...
Liam Byrne | 497 c28 (Link to this contribution) As I tried to say in my reply to the hon. Member for Twickenham (Dr. Cable), we think that local aut...
Liam Byrne | 497 c24-5 (Link to this contribution) I enjoyed the remark about tough decisions. I have made a mental note of the Tate. The hon. Gentlema...
Lord Tyrie | 497 c28 (Link to this contribution) What is the Minister’s definition of a fire sale?
Liam Byrne | 497 c27 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my statement, the Government must not only lock in the recovery, but lay the foundation...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 497 c27 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that a lot of people listening to this debate will think that it is ...
Liam Byrne | 497 c27 (Link to this contribution) The Department for Transport has to look at a whole range of scenarios for the years to come, not le...
Jeff Ennis | 497 c28 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister confirm that the onward sale of the Tote will be on the basis of the seven-year exc...
Ian McCartney | 497 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) In 2008, I spoke in the House about defending the jobs in the Tote in Wigan, in my constituency and ...
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Assets High Speed 1 line Tote Government Sales Economic recession Dartford River Crossing Student Loans Company
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