£9.1 billion to assist with energy costs alone, we are giving 150 pounds to people in the council tax. increasing though this comes, creating a tax cut for 30 million workers by raising the national insurance threshold, but however great our compassion and ingenuity we cannot simply spend our way out of this problem, we need to grow out of this problem, we need to grow out of this problem by creating hundreds of this problem by creating hundreds of thousands of new high wage, high skilled jobs across the country. i give way to the lady opposite, and i remind the house that there has never been a labour government that left office with unemployment lower than when they came in. we do give way but the prime
reason we can deliver. it s £9.1 billion. it s huge sums we are using to help people across the country and the only reason we can afford it is because we have a strong economy, the fastest growing in the g7 as i think i may have pointed out to the right honourable gentleman and not just last year, but this year as well. ~ , . ., , well. the prime minister clearly doesnt well. the prime minister clearly doesn t have well. the prime minister clearly doesn t have the well. the prime minister clearly doesn t have the first well. the prime minister clearly doesn t have the first clue - well. the prime minister clearly doesn t have the first clue what | well. the prime minister clearly - doesn t have the first clue what the chancellor has signed him up too, so let me help them out. his plan is to hand billions of pounds of taxpayer cash to energy companies and then force families to pay it off in instalments for years to come. if it sounds like he s forcing people to take out a loan,
with an unexpected windfall to pay a little more to keep household bills down? ., , ., , ., down? the labour plan, it s an improvement down? the labour plan, it s an improvement on down? the labour plan, it s an improvement on what - down? the labour plan, it s an improvement on what i - down? the labour plan, it s an| improvement on what i thought down? the labour plan, it s an - improvement on what i thought he stood for, which was nationalising the energy companies. maybe he has dropped that one now. i can t tell whether he has dropped it or not. but what he would be doing is hitting the energy companies are precisely the moment when we need to encourage them to go for more gas, because we need to transition now to cleaner fuels and what this government is providing is £9.1 billion worth of support. it s more generous than anything labour is offering and i will complete my point. the only reason we can do it is because we kept our economy moving in those hard times when they t
everything we can to help people. the chancellor has put another £9.1 billion into reducing the cost of energy forfamilies. and i don t know quite what he is shouting out, but we want to do more, and scotland, i can tell him, is in the lead in helping this country to solve its energy problems, notjust with more offshore wind, but by abandoning the phobia of our own hydrocarbons which i think will be vital for transition hydrocarbons which i think will be vitalfor transition and hydrocarbons which i think will be vital for transition and avoid is being blackmailed by putin s russia. and on his point about the orphans, mr speaker, iam and on his point about the orphans, mr speaker, i am grateful to him for his efforts and i thank him, and it is another example, if i may say without embarrassing him further, of the burgeoning cooperation between us! at the burgeoning cooperation between us! u, , the burgeoning cooperation between us! . ., , ~ the burgeoning cooperation between us! , ~ .,
decisions that are fated. we are now going to rectify it, mr speaker, and we are helping households. yet about the cost of energy bills. we are helping to the tune of £9.1 billion. now, why can this government afford to do that? why can we afford to put huge carp quantities of taxpayer money into supporting household energy cost? will tell you why. because you ve got the fastest growth in the g7 and don t forget that if we had listened to captain hindsight we would have stayed in lockdown and we would never have achieved it, mr speaker. 12 lockdown and we would never have achieved it, mr speaker. lockdown and we would never have achieved it, mr speaker. 12 years in ower and achieved it, mr speaker. 12 years in power and that achieved it, mr speaker. 12 years in power and that is achieved it, mr speaker. 12 years in power and that is the achieved it, mr speaker. 12 years in power and that is the best - achieved it, mr speaker. 12 years in power and that is the best he i achieved