Hilary Benn

Hilary Benn

Labour — Leeds South

Speaking in the House of Commons on 9 October 2024

Debate

Northern Ireland City Deals

Contribution

I absolutely take the right hon. Gentleman’s point, given his long experience in these matters and the role that he and others have played in assisting with the restoration of the institution, but I would very gently observe that if the matter was reviewed then, what was decided did not quite make its way into the fiscal inheritance that we have found ourselves left with. That fiscal inheritance—rather than a lack of support for the deals; I think the whole House supports them—is the cause of the problem.

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