division_name: Business of the House &#8212; The Economy
motion: <p class="" pid="c.788.4/1" pwmotiontext="yes">I beg to move an amendment, at the end of the Question to add:</p>
  
  <p class="" pid="c.788.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;but regret that the Gracious Speech fails to provide a strategy to build the productive economy that the country needs; note that a fragile recovery and stagnating productivity harms living standards and makes it harder to reduce the deficit; believe that every effort should now be concentrated on supporting middle- and lower-income working people; further note that the Gracious Speech is a missed opportunity to tackle the principal causes of rising welfare costs that flow from a low wage, high rent economy; further believe in the pooling and sharing of resources across the UK as the best mechanism for delivering social and economic change; urge the Government to pursue sensible savings in public expenditure as part of a balanced approach and not an ideologically-driven attempt to shrink public services beyond what is needed to address the deficit; and call upon Ministers to spell out where their cuts will fall and who will pay for their unfunded election pledges.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p pid="c.861.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>Question put</i>, That the amendment be made.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="c.861.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="c.861.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 278, Noes 325.</p>