May I point the hon. Gentleman to unemployment figures for the west midlands? We have heard a lot about those 520,000 net private sector jobs. As the hon. Gentleman no doubt knows, the west midlands has not seen any of those jobs. In fact, the last figures showed that minus 6,000 jobs, public and private, had been created in the west midlands.
The Economy
Proceeding contribution from
Owen Smith
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 22 June 2011.
It occurred during Opposition day on The Economy.
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