Yuan Yang

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1. House of Commons · House of Commons · 8 September 2026

   • Foreign Secretary statement: Israel-Palestine policy and settlement sanctions

     “Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Two months ago, our new Prime Minister admitted that the UK needed to do better. And today, the Foreign Secretary has shown us how things get done by working together with our allies to declare…”

     Watch from 3:27:22

2. Treasury Committee · House of Commons · 15 July 2026

   • Media focus on headroom and raising FRS report profile

     “Thank you, Chair. Professor Haskel, in your questionnaire response, you state that you regret that the OBR's assessment of the government meeting its fiscal rules has on occasion boiled down to a focus in the media on a single metric…”

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   • Tax threshold baselines, inflation mis-forecasting, and model improvements

     “Brilliant. And there was a discussion of course, as there is each year, about the OBR's use of baseline projections, which are very sensitive of course to assumptions about the uprating of income tax brackets and so on. And of…”

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   • Labour market slack and disagreement with the Bank of England

     “And finally, on the flip side, you write in your questionnaire that your opinion is that the diagnosis of excess supply in the economy is uncertain. You refer to the February Bank of England Monetary Policy Report, which has a…”

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3. Treasury Committee · House of Commons · 14 July 2026

   • Gilt market leverage, haircuts and official coordination

     “Well, I mean, we obviously put out, as we do, we put out a discussion document. I mean, we've obviously done a lot of analysis. We ran the system-wide exploratory scenario. From that, our conclusion was that rather than sort…”

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   • Gilt market leverage, haircuts and official coordination

     “Okay. So, in the discussion paper you mentioned before on September 2025, enhancing the resilience of the gilt repo market, you launched that in collaboration with other agencies such as the DMO and the FCA and the Treasury, and also…”

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   • Gilt market leverage, haircuts and official coordination

     “Thank you. And Mr. Bailey, finally on this point, the chief economist at Handelsbanken has written a note describing that the underlying problem here is the loss of a stable investor base in gilts and all of the issues that…”

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4. Treasury Committee · House of Commons · 8 July 2026

   • MOD–Treasury relationship, Healey resignation and DIP settlement

     “Thank you very much, Chair. Minister Pollard, could you give us a situation report of the state of the current relationship between the MoD and the Treasury and how you recommend both sides manage any risks that might be inherent?”

     Watch from 1:11:10

   • MOD–Treasury relationship, Healey resignation and DIP settlement

     “Minister Pollard, you're describing that improvement over the last two years I assume you're referring to. And over the last month would you agree that there has been mistrust between the two sides?”

     Watch from 1:12:54

   • MOD–Treasury relationship, Healey resignation and DIP settlement

     “Minister Pollard, how would you improve the situation such that future Defence Secretaries would not have to resign to get to the conclusion they desire?”

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