Finance (No. 3) Bill

Clearly we are not all in this together, because even now there are differences in the rate of unemployment across the board in the United Kingdom. As has just been said, in the north-east it is 10.2%. In the region that the Minister represents, and in the region represented in the Chamber today by Members from Cornwall and other parts of the south-east, such as the hon. Member for Truro and Falmouth (Sarah Newton), unemployment is 6%. There is a discrepancy between the unemployment rate in the north-east, which is 10.2%, and the unemployment rate in regions such as the south-east and the south-west, which is 6%. The question I want to put to the Minister, and the discussion we want to have around this, is about how the corporation tax cut proposed in the Bill is intended to bring jobs to my hon. Friends' region and other regions with lower levels of unemployment generally across the board. We need to look at the impact of the corporation tax cut generally across the board.