The previous Labour government agreed the statement of principles on flood insurance with the insurance industry in 2008.
After Gordon Brown's fourth Budget statement, Labour are taxing more, but delivering less.
As for Labour, the Autumn Statement provides both an opportunity and a trap.
Responding to the statement, Labour said there was a "growing crisis" in the housing market and that "urgent action" was needed.
Campaigners lobbied hard over a potential petrol tax hike in the run up to the Autumn Statement and Labour also called for Chancellor George Osborne to delay the planned fuel duty increase for three months.
Mr Osborne, who will deliver his fourth Budget next month, faced calls to resign from a handful of Labour MPs during his Commons statement.
In a statement, the Labour Party denied these were cash donations.
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Instead, they said Mr Timms was simply repeating an existing statement that if Labour were in office now, they would not be capping welfare at 1% and instead would let the existing system remain, in effect allowing benefits to rise in line with inflation.
Labour AM Huw Lewis made the statement whilst giving evidence to the Children and Young People Committee on 30 November 2010.
The charity declined to comment on Mr Foster's claim, while the Labour-led authority released a statement which said it remained in "confidential discussions which are extremely complex and sensitive".
The statement was signed by Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont, Ruth Davidson of the Tories and Lib Dem Willie Rennie.
"The officers of this association cannot possibly condone his decision to ask for the Labour whip, " it said in a statement.
"I hope that Margaret Beckett will make an early statement to Parliament about the gap between Labour's claims before the election that they were on the home straight on resolving the crisis and the continued outbreaks being confirmed in many areas, including some previously unaffected, " he said.
Chris Leslie, the Labour Party shadow financial secretary to the Treasury gave a statement in reaction to the news.
The environment secretary repeated that it was the Labour government who agreed with insurers not to renew the statement of principles.
The statement comes after speculation that the policy - which Labour says means the Tories would cut spending on schools and hospitals - was going to be watered down.
Labour leader Ed Miliband took the unusual step of responding to the statement - rather than Mr Hunt's shadow responding - and accused Prime Minister David Cameron of leaving Mr Hunt to "carry the can" in an "insult to the House and to the British public".
But in a statement on his Facebook page, he said he had asked Labour to withdraw its endorsement of his candidacy and to suspend his campaign.
The statement is that obviously it is better if we use the labour of more people to achieve our goal than use the labour of fewer people.
"Farmers have indicated to us that there is a shortage of farm labour, especially for seasonal work, " the ministry said in a statement, quoted by the AFP news agency.
The Autumn Statement replaces what was called the pre-Budget report during the Labour government's time in office.
Labour welcomed increases to the state pension but derided the chancellor's autumn statement, delivered the day before, as a "budget for unemployment".
In a statement on his Facebook page, Mr Barron said he had asked Labour to withdraw its endorsement of his candidacy and suspend his campaign.
Mrs Spelman retorted that Labour "had two years in government from the time it agreed that the statement of principles would not be renewed and found no solution, leaving this government with a ticking time bomb in the same safe where there was no money left".
As I write, Labour's Johann Lamont is preparing to lodge a point of order demanding a statement later from the FM.
Replying for Labour, shadow justice minister Lord Bach described the proposal as a "very important statement of principle" which he supported wholeheartedly.
But Labour, whose urgent question summoned Mr Clark to the despatch box to make a statement on 8 December 2011, feared wealthier parts of the country would be preferred for investment from new businesses.
Miss Boothroyd, or "our Betty" as Labour's Peter Snape described her, also broke a few traditions herself by using her statement to urge MPs and ministers, once again, not to downgrade Parliament.
He started by delivering a brief statement in which he highlighted the fact that on Saturday his government becomes the longest serving Labour government of all time.
Richard Burden, Labour MP for Longbridge, Birmingham, tabled a written parliamentary question on Monday asking the transport secretary to make a statement on the cancellations.
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