Owen Smith MP, Labour's Shadow Exchequer Secretary, said in response to reports about the pay and tax arrangements of the chief executive of the Student Loans Company:

Owen Smith MP, Labour's Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, responding to Nick Clegg's speech on supporting working families, said:

Organised criminals are depriving exchequer of more than £1bn of excise duties a year by diverting exports

Owen Smith MP, Labour’s Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, said in response to today’s inflation figures:

Owen Smith, Labour’s Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and MP for Pontypridd (which includes one of Peacocks major distribution centres employing 400 people), responding to the announcement that Peacocks may go into administration, said:

Owen Smith MP, Labour’s Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, in a blog for LabourList, wrote:

This is the full text of the 2012 Fabian Society annual conference speech by Ed Balls MP, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer: Thank you Suresh and Andrew – and to all of you for coming along today and giving up your Saturday. And let me start by saying – after over 20 years of attending the Fabian annual January conference – what a great honour it is to be invited to give the...

There’s much chatter in Westminster today about the fact that George Osborne is chairing the Cabinet committee on Scotland. Osborne is, of course, the Conservatives’ chief electoral strategist as well as the Chancellor of Exchequer. This has led to some suggestions that he wouldn’t be too upset by a referendum defeat that would make it an awful lot easier for the Tories to win a ...

Owen Smith MP, Labour’s Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, said in response to David Cameron’s comment on tax avoidance:

Exchequer returns show a 2011 deficit of 9.9 per cent of GDP, slightly below the target in its bail-out programme with the EU and IMF