Parliamentary search - Businesses and the Regions

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

481 c1050-69

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Mark Prisk | 481 c1068 (Link to this contribution) It might help my hon. Friend and, indeed, the House if I said that it is my understanding that, over...

Charles Walker | 481 c1068 (Link to this contribution) If those figures are correct—I have no reason to believe that they are not—that is a great sadness. ...

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Pat McFadden | 481 c1068-9 (Link to this contribution) I will not detain the House for long, but I wish to make a few concluding points. I thank all hon. M...

David Kidney | 481 c1060-1 (Link to this contribution) Yes. We receive great advice from many sources about simplifying the tax system, and we should liste...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1060 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to say that red tape is a burden that particularly affects small busines...

David Kidney | 481 c1061-3 (Link to this contribution) I am quite proud of some of the reliefs and allowances that we have introduced since 1997. Reliefs o...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1061 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend think that a company such as JCB would be helped by the abolition of reliefs on ...

Anne Main | 481 c1065-7 (Link to this contribution) I agree with some of what has just been said by the hon. Member for Caithness, Sutherland and Easter...

Viscount Thurso | 481 c1063-5 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stafford (Mr. Kidney) who, as usual, spoke wit...

Charles Walker | 481 c1067-8 (Link to this contribution) By a process of elimination, I note that it is now my turn to speak. I feel that the issue of small...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1069 (Link to this contribution) As I said to the hon. Gentleman earlier, this very day the Chancellor and my noble Friend the Secret...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1056 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman describes offices abroad organised by the RDAs as ““nonsense””. Will he say wheth...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1056-7 (Link to this contribution) If that is the best response that the Minister can make, we are scraping the barrel. The Mayor of Lo...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1056 (Link to this contribution) I regularly meet representatives of those organisations and others. The hon. Gentleman is right that...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the hon. Gentleman can gainsay the quotation of his own leader:"““many of the re...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1054 (Link to this contribution) Let us be clear: no commitment has been made to do one thing or the other. We recognise that the reg...

David Kidney | 481 c1056 (Link to this contribution) I understand and agree with many of the hon. Gentleman's points. I am a great fan of the representat...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1055-6 (Link to this contribution) The debate comes, as the Minister suggested, at a time of great financial uncertainty. Businesses th...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1053 (Link to this contribution) I have a couple of things to say to the hon. Lady, who has raised this point consistently during the...

Anne Main | 481 c1052-3 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Minister again whether he has evaluated the impact of removing £300 million-worth of inves...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1053-4 (Link to this contribution) That is a good point. I highlighted some examples of ongoing regional development around the country...

David Kidney | 481 c1053 (Link to this contribution) I do not suggest for a moment that there is an equivalence of severity between today's global shorta...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1058-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is prescient as always, because that is precisely my next point. The question is: wh...

David Kidney | 481 c1059-60 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Prisk), who was unfortuna...

Alistair Burt | 481 c1058 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is being very generous with his time. He has illustrated that the RDAs have struggled...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1057-8 (Link to this contribution) We believe that UKTI must be the lead voice abroad. The Minister can draw from that exactly what I m...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1057 (Link to this contribution) The regional offices should work with UKTI, but the hon. Gentleman is singularly failing to answer a...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1057 (Link to this contribution) If the Minister is going to promise that he will provide that voice and remove such competition, I s...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1057 (Link to this contribution) I can reiterate that point. I had a peculiar discussion in which I had to try to explain why two sep...

John Howell | 481 c1057 (Link to this contribution) Let me reiterate my hon. Friend's point. My experience as an exporter and as someone who has helped ...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1057 (Link to this contribution) I have told the Minister what should be done. There should be one strong team working in all the key...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1057 (Link to this contribution) We believe that such offices work well with UKTI. Indeed, we recently commissioned a review into how...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of businesses and the regions." It is righ...

Philip Hollobone | 481 c1050 (Link to this contribution) Kettering borough council is organising a credit crunch summit involving local businesses, residents...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1052 (Link to this contribution) As I said, we can find good examples in each region, and my hon. Friend highlights such an example i...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1051 (Link to this contribution) I can assure the House that the Chancellor and the Secretary of State are pressing ahead with this a...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1051 (Link to this contribution) Statements are welcome, but money would be nicer, from small firms' point of view. Why have the Fren...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1050 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that that will be carefully considered if the hon. Gentleman lets us know the date. Last ...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1052 (Link to this contribution) If my Treasury colleagues are ready to issue guidance, they will do so, but the statements from last...

Simon Burns | 481 c1052 (Link to this contribution) On the regions, will the Minister acknowledge that there is a role for individual Ministers for each...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1051 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says that money would be nicer. Perhaps he could take that up with his colleague,...

Robert Smith | 481 c1051-2 (Link to this contribution) One of the announcements made last week concerned help for business through the way in which Her Maj...

Alison Seabeck | 481 c1052 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving way and for drawing attention to the role of the regional developm...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1050-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the re-announcement of the EIB money. However, as it originally occurred six weeks ago, wh...

Mark Prisk | 481 c1069 (Link to this contribution) On credit, will the Minister answer the question that was put earlier? Why is it that in France the ...

Pat McFadden | 481 c1052 (Link to this contribution) I believe that all of the Ministers of the regions are doing a good job in working with business, an...

Subjects

Bank services

Business

Banks

Financial markets

Small businesses

Regional planning and development

Regional assistance

Regional development agencies

Contains statistics

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