harriett baldwin: good afternoon, prime minister.robably the best way to start in that context is to ask, how is the economic strategy going? the prime minister: thank you for the preamble, sir bernard. when i first got this job, i set out five priorities. three of them were economicto halve inflation, grow the economy and reduce debt, and i am pleased to say that we have made progress on all three, particularly on inflation. that was the number 1 economic objective, to bring inflation down from the record highs that we saw at 11%, and the last set of numbers, at just under 3.5%, were very encouraging. in terms of the economy, obviously we would all like to see the economy growing faster, but it is worth saying that last year it defied the sceptics, significantly outperformed expectations and did, in fact, grow. all the signs from early this year are that it has returned to growth, as we see in the latest gdp figures. and then obviously we are on track to meet our fiscal rules to ensure that debt is falling. those are the three main