On page 8 we are told in the context of the Productivity Crisis - and crisis it is throughout our motor car industry - that British Leylandhas … adopted a cautious approach to the timing any extent of productivity improvements".

The Chancellor has a Massive Productivity Crisis in the public sector and he has no idea what to do about it.

Everyone talks every year about the Productivity Crisis.

Then we might not need to worry quite so much about the Productivity Crisis in the public sector, because we would be generating more industrial and commercial activity elsewhere.

In fact, no industry is more symptomatic of the post-war British economy, culminating in the Crisis of Productivity in '79 and the collapse of that model of growth under, it gives me no pleasure to say, a Labour Government, than the British automotive sector and its restoration over recent years - longer than just the past two or three years, I would grant; over the past 10 years - so that Britain is now a net exporter of vehicles.

Only a Labour Government, in the Scottish Parliament and in this Parliament, can get to grips with the root causes of this unbalanced recovery: the lack of a sectorally and regionally balanced industrial policy, weak business investment, skill shortages, poor exports, a worsening Productivity Crisis and the lowest number of new starts in housing since the 1920s.

Exports are not predicted to contribute a thing to the economy for the next five years and nothing in the Budget tackles the country's Productivity Crisis that has emerged in recent years.

Nothing in the Budget tackles the Productivity Crisis that has emerged in recent years.

A Crisis of Productivity means that we do not produce as much in this country as the rest of the world produces.

This country faces a Productivity Crisis and a poverty crisis, so we must leave the Chamber hearing the note sounded by my hon. Friend the Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch sounded - she said that there is poverty, but no poverty of ambition - as well as leaving with a determination to do something about it.

All my hon. Friend will get from the Chancellor is the hollow slogan about the Government's plan, but their plan contains nothing to tackle the Productivity Crisis in our economy.

The Minister's initial Answer suggests that he is utterly oblivious to the fact that we have a Productivity Crisis in this country, a massive balance of payments issue, and that small businesses are constantly emphasising that their access to finance is very limited and difficult for them.

However, I will start where the hon. Member for Stroud started: I too welcome the fact that, rather belatedly, the Chancellor has woken up to the Grave Productivity Crisis that our country confronts.

Secondly, an effective trade and industry strategy is critical given the need to deal with Our Productivity Crisis.

I am delighted that the Chancellor has now woken up to the Productivity Crisis that bedevils us, albeit arguably five years too late.

As we know, the lack of investment in machinery and technology is a major reason for the United Kingdom's Productivity Crisis.

How do such policy decisions impact on our prospects for overcoming the Current Productivity Crisis, which, as Labour Members have repeatedly set out, must be at the top of the Chancellor's priorities?

However, to maintain our influence, we must focus on exports and address the UK's Productivity Crisis.

It is also ironic given that all those subjects give students the best shot at getting highly valued, highly paid jobs, and given the UK's Productivity Crisis.

This Budget was business-friendly and it was aimed at combating Our Productivity Crisis.

We do need this - Our Productivity Crisis is worsening.

I am confident that the education Bill announced in the Queen's Speech will take some good steps towards addressing Our Productivity Crisis.

Where is the Bill to deal with this country's Productivity Crisis, which is greater than just about anywhere else in the western world?

Can we at least agree that from now on that we need a comprehensive strategy to deal with the Productivity Crisis?

With that in mind, and because he has not answered this yet, will he say what proper assessment he has made of the impact of this cut in corporation tax on our country's Productivity Crisis?

We must challenge those perceptions and stereotypes to deal with that problem, and with Our Productivity Crisis.

The skills shortage is a ticking time bomb and we must get to grips with it if we are to remain at the forefront of global product design and tackle Our Productivity Crisis.