division_name: Debate on the Address &#8212; The Economy and Work
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b732.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;but respectfully regret that the Gracious Speech fails to deliver for working people, to protect public services and to address the black hole in the public finances; further regret that the Government&#8217;s economic policy has unfairness at its core and includes tax cuts for the wealthy while failing to deal with inequality; regret the refusal of the Scottish Government to use its new tax powers to put an end to austerity in Scotland; regret that the Government is presiding over the worst decade for pay growth in nearly a century; call on the Government to adopt Labour&#8217;s Fiscal Credibility Rule to invest in a sustainable economy for the future and  to adopt Labour&#8217;s Tax Transparency Enforcement Programme to tackle tax avoidance; regret that the Government has failed to defend the UK steel industry, believe the Government should reform the lesser duty rule and call on the Government to give Parliament a vote on giving China market economy status and to adopt Labour&#8217;s 4 Point Plan to save the steel industry as a part of a long-term industrial strategy; further call on the Government to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit work allowances; and call on the Government to abandon its misguided proposals to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998.&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b734.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;will support aspiration and promote home ownership&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b735.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;continue to support the&#8230;Northern Powerhouse.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b735.2/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;introduce new indicators for measuring life chances&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b737.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;where work is rewarded.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b740.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A tsunami of aspirant voters sank Labour&#8230;Voters abandoned Labour because they believed Labour lacked economic credibility&#8230;the perception was that it would be pro?igate in government&#8230; Labour is losing its working-class support&#8230; Labour has marched away from the views of voters&#8230; Labour is becoming a toxic brand.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b740.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;irrelevant to the&#8230;working people in the country.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b740.6/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;regret the refusal of the Scottish Government to use its new tax powers to put an end to austerity in Scotland&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b741.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Labour lost because voters didn&#8217;t believe it would cut the de?cit. The Tories didn&#8217;t win despite their commitment to cut spending and the de?cit: they won because of it. The Tories were trusted to manage the country&#8217;s ?nances, Labour was not.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b741.5/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The UK&#8217;s recent economic performance has been strong, and considerable progress has been achieved in addressing underlying vulnerabilities.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b741.5/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the unemployment rate has fallen substantially, employment has reached an historic high, the fiscal deficit has been reduced, and financial sector resilience has increased.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b749.4/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;legislation will be introduced to ensure Britain has the infrastructure that businesses need to grow.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b753.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;My government will use the opportunity of a strengthening economy to deliver security for working people, to increase life chances for the most disadvantaged and to strengthen national defences.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b753.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;will be given unprecedented freedom and they will be able to ensure prisoners receive better education&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b753.0/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;You were more likely to die in prison than five years ago. More prisoners were murdered, killed themselves, self-harmed and were victims of assaults than five years ago.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b755.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the United Kingdom a world leader in the digital economy.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b755.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If you went to bed last night as an industrial company, you're going to wake up this morning as a software and analytics company.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b758.2/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;as if we are managers of the status quo and not changers of it&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b765.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Labour lost because voters didn&#8217;t believe it&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b769.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Remedial work and rehabilitation are essential but prevention is so much more rewarding and fruitful for the young person and wider society.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b769.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;in this context&#8230;young children develop self confidence, trust, personal and social values and optimism. Loss, neglect or trauma at this early stage in life often result in profound and enduring consequences.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b769.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;increase life chances for the most disadvantaged&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b769.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;poverty and the causes of deprivation, including family instability&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b770.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Good quality, couple, family and social relationships are the basis of a thriving society&#8230;central to our health and wellbeing&#8230;poor quality relationships have far-reaching consequences. Inter-parental relationships have&#8230;been recognised&#8230;as a major determinant of children&#8217;s life chances.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b770.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A broad range of relationship support services are effective at improving relationship quality.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b770.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;expand access to a spectrum of support for good quality relationships, overcoming barriers of accessibility, availability, and affordability to ensure that anyone who needs it can benefit from support.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b776.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we in this country are very bad at dealing with white-collar crime, and there is growing awareness of that. If someone wishes to rob a bank, they go to the LIBOR market; they do not put on a balaclava and pick up a shotgun&#8212;that is much less profitable&#8230; I hope I can be reassured that the Bill will tackle not just tax evasion, which is quite rightly high on the public agenda, but money laundering.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b776.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;London is still the money-laundering capital of the world.&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-05-24">24 May</phrase> 2016; Vol. 611, c. 450.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b788.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Government should consider extending support to the self-employed in areas where there is discrepancy between support for the self-employed and support for employees.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b789.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;legislation will be introduced to tackle corruption, money laundering and tax evasion.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b791.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;economic security always comes first&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2016-05-18">18 May</phrase> 2016; Vol. 611, c. 22.]</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b799.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b799.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 189, Noes 300.</p>