Cost of Living Committee — 14 Jun 2023 at 16:08
“Current select committee meeting rooms are not equipped for a committee of the proposed size and would need to be adapted to accommodate the Committee. The costs stated in this memorandum do not include the additional costs associated with such adaptation.”
“I will do so in the knowledge that I will be able to walk down the streets of Edinburgh South, look my constituents in the eye and say to them that I have done everything I possibly can to protect their jobs, their livelihoods and the future of their families.”-[Official Report, 1 February 2017; Vol. 620, c. 1052.]
“at the moment, for example, it’s pretty obvious that independence is not the consistent settled will of the Scottish people”.
“at every corner and every turn”,
“That this House agrees that increases in the cost of living are having a detrimental impact on businesses and families across Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom”.
“the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union has played a significant role in driving those increases”.
“There are several factors driving this crisis. The most immediate trigger is high inflation, partially a consequence of trade disruption associated with the conflict in Ukraine, superimposed on the impact of Brexit and associated fall in the value of the pound, which is leading to a rise in the costs of energy, food, and other essential resources for life.”
“the devolved administrations do not possess the full financial powers required to effectively mitigate the increases”.
“a completely unprecedented period with no earnings growth.”
“not a penny less, not a power lost”,
“frankly more acute than in most other major countries”.
“Trade can no longer be as frictionless and dynamic as it was before. This means additional costs for businesses on both sides... Over time, increased divergence will bring even more costs and it will further deepen the barriers to trade between the EU and the UK.”
“seem to be losing hope and do not feel optimistic about their futures”.
“It is crazy that one week the government is holding a crisis meeting in Downing Street to discuss out-of-control food inflation and the next is willing to nod through a multimillion new import tax on EU food imports.”
“Because of silly EU rules”-
“EU energy regulation will cost the UK economy about £90 billion… Instead of spending money on patients, the NHS has to instead spend millions every year on energy costs.”
“We are freeing people in this country from red tape because we look at the United Kingdom playing a global role-trading with the globe, being as economically productive as anywhere in the world…That is why the EU is a failing economic option and why we sing hallelujahs for having left it.-[Official Report, 9 June 2022; Vol. 715, c. 933.]
“frankly more acute than…in most other major countries.”
“remains higher than it was last summer, bills will remain higher than the beginning of this crisis in 2021, and since then people have faced a huge squeeze on their finances.”
“whatever issues the industry has with Brexit and labour issues”-
“these pale into insignificance if fishermen are banned from fishing”,
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Robin Millar | Aberconwy | Con (front bench) | no |
Kirsty Blackman | Aberdeen North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Stephen Flynn | Aberdeen South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Anum Qaisar | Airdrie and Shotts | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Wendy Morton | Aldridge-Brownhills | Con (front bench) | no |
Graham Brady | Altrincham and Sale West | Con (front bench) | no |
Nigel Mills | Amber Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
Dave Doogan | Angus | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Brendan O'Hara | Argyll and Bute | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Andrew Griffith | Arundel and South Downs | Con (front bench) | no |
Lee Anderson | Ashfield | whilst Con (front bench) | no |
Damian Green | Ashford | Con (front bench) | no |
Rob Butler | Aylesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
Allan Dorans | Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Victoria Prentis | Banbury | Con (front bench) | no |
David Duguid | Banff and Buchan | Con (front bench) | no |
Simon Fell | Barrow and Furness | Con (front bench) | no |
John Baron | Basildon and Billericay | Con (front bench) | no |
Maria Miller | Basingstoke | Con (front bench) | no |
Brendan Clarke-Smith | Bassetlaw | Con (front bench) | no |
Anne-Marie Trevelyan | Berwick-upon-Tweed | Con (front bench) | no |
John Lamont | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | Con (front bench) | no |
Graham Stuart | Beverley and Holderness | Con (front bench) | no |
Huw Merriman | Bexhill and Battle | Con (front bench) | no |
Gary Sambrook | Birmingham, Northfield | Con (front bench) | no |
Paul Maynard | Blackpool North and Cleveleys | Con (front bench) | no |
Scott Benton | Blackpool South | whilst Independent (front bench) | no |
Ian Levy | Blyth Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
Nick Gibb | Bognor Regis and Littlehampton | Con (front bench) | no |
Mark Fletcher | Bolsover | Con | no |
Mark Logan | Bolton North East | Con (front bench) | no |
Chris Green | Bolton West | Con (front bench) | no |
Matt Warman | Boston and Skegness | Con (front bench) | no |
Luke Evans | Bosworth | Con | no |
Tobias Ellwood | Bournemouth East | Con (front bench) | no |
James Sunderland | Bracknell | Con (front bench) | no |
Fay Jones | Brecon and Radnorshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Alex Burghart | Brentwood and Ongar | Con (front bench) | no |
Andrew Percy | Brigg and Goole | Con (front bench) | no |
Charles Walker | Broxbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
Darren Henry | Broxtowe | Con (front bench) | no |
Greg Smith | Buckingham | Con (front bench) | no |
Kate Kniveton | Burton | Con | no |
Jo Churchill | Bury St Edmunds | Con (front bench) | no |
George Eustice | Camborne and Redruth | Con | no |
Amanda Milling | Cannock Chase | Con | no |
John Stevenson | Carlisle | Con (front bench) | no |
Jonathan Edwards | Carmarthen East and Dinefwr | whilst Independent (front bench) | aye |
Simon Hart | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Elliot Colburn | Carshalton and Wallington | Con (front bench) | no |
Rebecca Harris | Castle Point | Con (front bench) | no |
Philippa Whitford | Central Ayrshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Ben Lake | Ceredigion | PC (front bench) | aye |
Edward Argar | Charnwood | Con (front bench) | no |
Tracey Crouch | Chatham and Aylesford | Con (front bench) | no |
Mary Robinson | Cheadle | Con (front bench) | no |
Alex Chalk | Cheltenham | Con (front bench) | no |
Gillian Keegan | Chichester | Con (front bench) | no |
Iain Duncan Smith | Chingford and Woodford Green | Con | no |
Michelle Donelan | Chippenham | Con (front bench) | no |
Theresa Villiers | Chipping Barnet | Con (front bench) | no |
Christopher Chope | Christchurch | Con (front bench) | no |
Nickie Aiken | Cities of London and Westminster | Con (front bench) | no |
Giles Watling | Clacton | Con (front bench) | no |
Martin Vickers | Cleethorpes | Con (front bench) | no |
Simon Baynes | Clwyd South | Con (front bench) | no |
David Jones | Clwyd West | Con (front bench) | no |
Steven Bonnar | Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Will Quince | Colchester | Con (front bench) | no |
Jason McCartney | Colne Valley | Con | no |
Trudy Harrison | Copeland | Con (front bench) | no |
Henry Smith | Crawley | Con (front bench) | no |
Kieran Mullan | Crewe and Nantwich | Con (front bench) | no |
Chris Philp | Croydon South | Con (front bench) | no |
Stuart McDonald | Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Peter Gibson | Darlington | Con (front bench) | no |
Gareth Johnson | Dartford | Con (front bench) | no |
Amanda Solloway | Derby North | Con (front bench) | no |
Sarah Dines | Derbyshire Dales | Con (front bench) | no |
Danny Kruger | Devizes | Con (front bench) | no |
Nicholas Fletcher | Don Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
Natalie Elphicke | Dover | Con (front bench) | no |
Marco Longhi | Dudley North | Con (front bench) | no |
Mike Wood | Dudley South | Con (front bench) | no |
Stewart Hosie | Dundee East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Douglas Chapman | Dunfermline and West Fife | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Liz Saville-Roberts | Dwyfor Meirionnydd | PC (front bench) | aye |
Simon Jupp | East Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
Amy Callaghan | East Dunbartonshire | SNP | aye |
Damian Hinds | East Hampshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Lisa Cameron | East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow | whilst SNP (front bench) | aye |
Kirsten Oswald | East Renfrewshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Claire Coutinho | East Surrey | Con (front bench) | no |
Tim Loughton | East Worthing and Shoreham | Con (front bench) | no |
Greg Knight | East Yorkshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Caroline Ansell | Eastbourne | Con (front bench) | no |
Paul Holmes | Eastleigh | Con (front bench) | no |
Tommy Sheppard | Edinburgh East | SNP | aye |
Deidre Brock | Edinburgh North and Leith | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Joanna Cherry | Edinburgh South West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Maggie Throup | Erewash | Con (front bench) | no |
John McNally | Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Helen Whately | Faversham and Mid Kent | Con (front bench) | no |
Jack Lopresti | Filton and Bradley Stoke | Con | no |
Mike Freer | Finchley and Golders Green | Con (front bench) | no |
Damian Collins | Folkestone and Hythe | Con (front bench) | no |
Colum Eastwood | Foyle | SDLP | aye |
Mark Menzies | Fylde | Con (front bench) | no |
Edward Leigh | Gainsborough | Con (front bench) | no |
Tom Randall | Gedling | Con (front bench) | no |
Alison Thewliss | Glasgow Central | SNP (front bench) | aye |
David Linden | Glasgow East | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Patrick Grady | Glasgow North | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Anne McLaughlin | Glasgow North East | SNP | aye |
Carol Monaghan | Glasgow North West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Stewart McDonald | Glasgow South | SNP | aye |
Chris Stephens | Glasgow South West | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Peter Grant | Glenrothes | SNP (front bench) | tellaye |
Richard Graham | Gloucester | Con (front bench) | no |
Richard Thomson | Gordon | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Gareth Davies | Grantham and Stamford | Con (front bench) | no |
Lia Nici | Great Grimsby | Con (front bench) | no |
Brandon Lewis | Great Yarmouth | Con | no |
James Morris | Halesowen and Rowley Regis | Con (front bench) | no |
Neil O'Brien | Harborough | Con (front bench) | no |
Robert Halfon | Harlow | Con (front bench) | no |
Andrew Jones | Harrogate and Knaresborough | Con (front bench) | no |
Bob Blackman | Harrow East | Con (front bench) | no |
Bernard Jenkin | Harwich and North Essex | Con (front bench) | no |
Sally-Ann Hart | Hastings and Rye | Con (front bench) | no |
Alan Mak | Havant | Con (front bench) | no |
William Wragg | Hazel Grove | Con (front bench) | no |
Mike Penning | Hemel Hempstead | Con | no |
John Howell | Henley | Con | no |
Jesse Norman | Hereford and South Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Julie Marson | Hertford and Stortford | Con (front bench) | no |
Guy Opperman | Hexham | Con (front bench) | no |
Chris Clarkson | Heywood and Middleton | Con (front bench) | no |
Robert Largan | High Peak | Con (front bench) | no |
Bim Afolami | Hitchin and Harpenden | Con (front bench) | no |
Julia Lopez | Hornchurch and Upminster | Con (front bench) | no |
Jonathan Djanogly | Huntingdon | Con (front bench) | no |
Ronnie Cowan | Inverclyde | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Drew Hendry | Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Tom Hunt | Ipswich | Con (front bench) | no |
Bob Seely | Isle of Wight | Con (front bench) | no |
Robbie Moore | Keighley | Con (front bench) | no |
Jeremy Wright | Kenilworth and Southam | Con (front bench) | no |
Felicity Buchan | Kensington | Con (front bench) | no |
Philip Hollobone | Kettering | Con (front bench) | no |
Alan Brown | Kilmarnock and Loudoun | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Chris Skidmore | Kingswood | Con (front bench) | no |
James Grundy | Leigh | Con (front bench) | no |
Maria Caulfield | Lewes | Con (front bench) | no |
Michael Fabricant | Lichfield | Con (front bench) | no |
Karl McCartney | Lincoln | Con (front bench) | no |
Martyn Day | Linlithgow and East Falkirk | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Jane Hunt | Loughborough | Con (front bench) | no |
Victoria Atkins | Louth and Horncastle | Con (front bench) | no |
Philip Dunne | Ludlow | Con (front bench) | no |
David Rutley | Macclesfield | Con (front bench) | no |
Theresa May | Maidenhead | Con | no |
John Whittingdale | Maldon | Con (front bench) | no |
Flick Drummond | Meon Valley | Con (front bench) | no |
Saqib Bhatti | Meriden | Con (front bench) | no |
Michael Tomlinson | Mid Dorset and North Poole | Con (front bench) | no |
George Freeman | Mid Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
Mims Davies | Mid Sussex | Con (front bench) | no |
Nigel Huddleston | Mid Worcestershire | Con (front bench) | no |
Simon Clarke | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Con (front bench) | no |
Owen Thompson | Midlothian | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Ben Everitt | Milton Keynes North | Con (front bench) | no |
Iain Stewart | Milton Keynes South | Con (front bench) | no |
Paul Beresford | Mole Valley | Con | no |
Craig Williams | Montgomeryshire | Con (front bench) | no |
David Morris | Morecambe and Lunesdale | Con | no |
Marion Fellows | Motherwell and Wishaw | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Angus MacNeil | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | whilst SNP (front bench) | aye |
Julian Lewis | New Forest East | whilst Con (front bench) | no |
Desmond Swayne | New Forest West | Con (front bench) | no |
Robert Jenrick | Newark | Con (front bench) | no |
Laura Farris | Newbury | Con (front bench) | no |
Aaron Bell | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Con (front bench) | no |
Anne Marie Morris | Newton Abbot | Con (front bench) | no |
Ian Paisley Jnr | North Antrim | DUP (front bench) | no |
Patricia Gibson | North Ayrshire and Arran | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Scott Mann | North Cornwall | Con (front bench) | no |
Selaine Saxby | North Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
Lee Rowley | North East Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Oliver Heald | North East Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Jacob Rees-Mogg | North East Somerset | Con | no |
Bill Wiggin | North Herefordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Duncan Baker | North Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
Liam Fox | North Somerset | Con | no |
Justin Tomlinson | North Swindon | Con | no |
Craig Tracey | North Warwickshire | Con | no |
Shailesh Vara | North West Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Richard Holden | North West Durham | Con (front bench) | no |
Kit Malthouse | North West Hampshire | Con | no |
James Wild | North West Norfolk | Con (front bench) | no |
James Gray | North Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Michael Ellis | Northampton North | Con | no |
Andrew Lewer | Northampton South | Con (front bench) | no |
Chloe Smith | Norwich North | Con (front bench) | no |
Marcus Jones | Nuneaton | Con (front bench) | no |
John Nicolson | Ochil and South Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Louie French | Old Bexley and Sidcup | Con (front bench) | no |
Gareth Bacon | Orpington | Con | no |
Gavin Newlands | Paisley and Renfrewshire North | SNP (front bench) | tellaye |
Mhairi Black | Paisley and Renfrewshire South | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Miriam Cates | Penistone and Stocksbridge | Con (front bench) | no |
Neil Hudson | Penrith and The Border | Con (front bench) | no |
Pete Wishart | Perth and North Perthshire | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Johnny Mercer | Plymouth, Moor View | Con (front bench) | no |
Robert Syms | Poole | Con (front bench) | no |
Stephen Crabb | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Stuart Andrew | Pudsey | Con (front bench) | no |
Mark Francois | Rayleigh and Wickford | Con (front bench) | no |
Alok Sharma | Reading West | Con | no |
Jacob Young | Redcar | Con (front bench) | tellno |
Rachel Maclean | Redditch | Con (front bench) | no |
Crispin Blunt | Reigate | Con | no |
Kelly Tolhurst | Rochester and Strood | Con | no |
James Duddridge | Rochford and Southend East | Con | no |
Caroline Nokes | Romsey and Southampton North | Con (front bench) | no |
Jake Berry | Rossendale and Darwen | Con | no |
Mark Pawsey | Rugby | Con (front bench) | no |
David Simmonds | Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner | Con (front bench) | no |
Ben Spencer | Runnymede and Weybridge | Con (front bench) | no |
Ruth Edwards | Rushcliffe | Con (front bench) | tellno |
John Glen | Salisbury | Con (front bench) | no |
Robert Goodwill | Scarborough and Whitby | Con (front bench) | no |
Laura Trott | Sevenoaks | Con (front bench) | no |
Mark Spencer | Sherwood | Con (front bench) | no |
Philip Davies | Shipley | Con (front bench) | no |
Gordon Henderson | Sittingbourne and Sheppey | Con | no |
Julian Smith | Skipton and Ripon | Con | no |
Dr Caroline Johnson | Sleaford and North Hykeham | Con (front bench) | no |
David Warburton | Somerton and Frome | Con | no |
Stephen Metcalfe | South Basildon and East Thurrock | Con (front bench) | no |
Anthony Browne | South Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Heather Wheeler | South Derbyshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Richard Drax | South Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
Lucy Frazer | South East Cambridgeshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Sheryll Murray | South East Cornwall | Con (front bench) | no |
John Hayes | South Holland and The Deepings | Con (front bench) | no |
Katherine Fletcher | South Ribble | Con (front bench) | no |
Gavin Williamson | South Staffordshire | Con | no |
James Cartlidge | South Suffolk | Con (front bench) | no |
Robert Buckland | South Swindon | Con (front bench) | no |
Craig Mackinlay | South Thanet | Con (front bench) | no |
Andrew Selous | South West Bedfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Gary Streeter | South West Devon | Con (front bench) | no |
Gagan Mohindra | South West Hertfordshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Andrew Murrison | South West Wiltshire | Con (front bench) | no |
Royston Smith | Southampton, Itchen | Con (front bench) | no |
Anna Firth | Southend West | Con (front bench) | no |
Damien Moore | Southport | Con (front bench) | no |
Steve Double | St Austell and Newquay | Con (front bench) | no |
Theo Clarke | Stafford | Con (front bench) | no |
Stephen McPartland | Stevenage | Con (front bench) | no |
Alyn Smith | Stirling | SNP (front bench) | aye |
Matt Vickers | Stockton South | Con (front bench) | no |
Jo Gideon | Stoke-on-Trent Central | Con (front bench) | no |
Jack Brereton | Stoke-on-Trent South | Con (front bench) | no |
Bill Cash | Stone | Con (front bench) | no |
Suzanne Webb | Stourbridge | Con (front bench) | no |
Jim Shannon | Strangford | DUP (front bench) | no |
Siobhan Baillie | Stroud | Con (front bench) | no |
Laurence Robertson | Tewkesbury | Con (front bench) | no |
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | The Cotswolds | Con (front bench) | no |
Kevin Hollinrake | Thirsk and Malton | Con (front bench) | no |
Luke Hall | Thornbury and Yate | Con | no |
Jackie Doyle-Price | Thurrock | Con (front bench) | no |
Thomas Tugendhat | Tonbridge and Malling | Con (front bench) | no |
Anthony Mangnall | Totnes | Con (front bench) | no |
Greg Clark | Tunbridge Wells | Con (front bench) | no |
James Davies | Vale of Clwyd | Con (front bench) | no |
Eddie Hughes | Walsall North | Con | no |
David Johnston | Wantage | Con | no |
Andy Carter | Warrington South | Con (front bench) | no |
Dean Russell | Watford | Con (front bench) | no |
Peter Aldous | Waveney | Con | no |
Nusrat Ghani | Wealden | Con (front bench) | no |
Peter Bone | Wellingborough | whilst Con (front bench) | no |
James Heappey | Wells | Con (front bench) | no |
Nicola Richards | West Bromwich East | Con | no |
Chris Loder | West Dorset | Con (front bench) | no |
Martin Docherty | West Dunbartonshire | SNP | aye |
Matthew Hancock | West Suffolk | whilst Independent | no |
John Penrose | Weston-Super-Mare | Con | no |
Stephen Hammond | Wimbledon | Con | no |
Adam Afriyie | Windsor | Con | no |
Robert Courts | Witney | Con (front bench) | no |
Jonathan Lord | Woking | Con | no |
John Redwood | Wokingham | Con | no |
Jane Stevenson | Wolverhampton North East | Con (front bench) | no |
Robin Walker | Worcester | Con (front bench) | no |
Mark Jenkinson | Workington | Con (front bench) | no |
Peter Bottomley | Worthing West | Con (front bench) | no |
Sarah Atherton | Wrexham | Con (front bench) | no |
Steven Baker | Wycombe | Con (front bench) | no |
Mark Garnier | Wyre Forest | Con (front bench) | no |
Marcus Fysh | Yeovil | Con (front bench) | no |
Virginia Crosbie | Ynys Môn | Con (front bench) | no |
Julian Sturdy | York Outer | Con (front bench) | no |