11:50: Stay tuned for live coverage from 12:00
12:02: Labour MP Kevin Brennan attacks Ken Clarke’s criminal justice prison reform: cuts or tackling re-offending. Cameron return fire by citing the need for a new approach to tackling re-offended.
12: 03: Here’s Harman with Larry Elliott’s scoop on the Budget. Cameron responds by citing the OBR’s transparency. The figures, Cameron argues, show unemployment falling year-on-year thanks to the two-year public sector pay freeze, and 2.5million new jobs in the private sector. Cameron says that 70,000 public sector jobs would have been lost under Labour’s plan, in tune with Alistair Darling’s prediction that public sector employment would ‘inevitably fall’.
12:05: Harman re-asks the question: why hasn’t he published the Treasury forecasts which suggest that 1.3 million people will be out of a job thanks to the Budget. Cameron doesn’t answer the question – he reiterates his OBR answer.
12:08: Harman asks about the increasing dole bill.
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