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Industry (Government Support)

Opposition day on Wednesday, 16 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Pat McFadden. The answering member was Vincent Cable.
First opposition day debate. Main question negatived on division (238 to 322). Amendment agreed to on division (319 to 243). Main question, as amended, agreed to.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
511 c886-990 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Julie Hilling | 511 c917-9 (Link to this contribution) I cannot begin to explain what an honour and privilege it is to be making my maiden speech as the ne...
Ian Lavery | 511 c922-4 (Link to this contribution) First, I congratulate the hon. Member for Bracknell (Dr Lee) and my hon. Friend the Member for Bolto...

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Phillip Lee | 511 c911-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to catch your eye so that I can make my maiden spee...
Pat Glass | 511 c931-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech today in this debate on Government suppor...
Michael Dugher | 511 c935-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to make my maiden speech. I warmly congratulate t...
Tom Blenkinsop | 511 c940-2 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate you, Mr Deputy Speaker, on your new position. I also congratulate the new Members—the...
Speaker | 511 c949 (Link to this contribution) Order. Under the power I have to vary the time limit, I am changing it to 10 minutes.
Speaker | 511 c909 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind hon. Members that Mr Speaker has put an eight-minute limit on contributions to this ...
Michael McCann | 511 c897 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman said that, when on the Opposition Benches, he urged the Government to take ...
Vincent Cable | 511 c897 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to come to RDAs shortly. We have a view on them, and I have been asked specific questions...
Vincent Cable | 511 c897-8 (Link to this contribution) The Chancellor of the Exchequer made a very good statement earlier, setting up the commission that w...
Vincent Cable | 511 c897 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. It is part of a conglomeration, but he spoke up for Stoke-on-Trent in particular. I met the ...
Lord Walney | 511 c897 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman talks about the past, but does he agree with the chief executive of the Cum...
Vincent Cable | 511 c898 (Link to this contribution) I was in Birmingham last week, and people affected by that problem have approached me—indeed, the ci...
Toby Perkins | 511 c898 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that he is viewed, in his own party at least, as an economic Nostra...
Andrew George | 511 c900 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Vincent Cable | 511 c900 (Link to this contribution) If I get fewer interventions, I will be able to get to that point shortly. I am trying to develop th...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 511 c900 (Link to this contribution) Whatever may or may not be the case with regard to early cuts, one decision that the previous Govern...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c899 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman also met the permanent secretary at the Treasury and the Governor of the Ba...
Vincent Cable | 511 c898-9 (Link to this contribution) That was starting to morph from an intervention into a speech. It did not require a great genius to ...
Andrew George | 511 c900 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I appreciate that he is concerned about interventions, but gi...
Vincent Cable | 511 c900 (Link to this contribution) I am heartily relieved that my hon. Friend did not ask me an awkward question about the retail ombud...
Pat McFadden | 511 c892 (Link to this contribution) The proposals we made on the tax to which the hon. Gentleman refers would have kicked in next year. ...
Matt Hancock | 511 c892 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has talked a lot about growth and the need for a growth strategy. Is it sti...
Pat McFadden | 511 c892-3 (Link to this contribution) No—I have already given way to my hon. Friend and I want to make progress. Support for industry is ...
Mark Tami | 511 c892 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 511 c893-4 (Link to this contribution) RDAs are important, but does the right hon. Gentleman concede that the performance of some RDAs has ...
Pat McFadden | 511 c893 (Link to this contribution) The previous Government set out many proposals, including some £900 million over the next few years ...
Vincent Cable | 511 c895 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from "power" to the end of the Question and add:""welcomes ...
Pat McFadden | 511 c894-5 (Link to this contribution) When we were in government we brought apprenticeships back from the near-death state that they were ...
David Simpson | 511 c894 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has mentioned research and development, but one of the pressing issues in i...
Vincent Cable | 511 c896 (Link to this contribution) That was a very constructive intervention, and I would be delighted to meet the right hon. Gentleman...
Denis MacShane | 511 c896 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State to his job, and he will recall that I reviewed his memoirs very pos...
Vincent Cable | 511 c895-6 (Link to this contribution) Let me finish my introduction; I will come to specific projects later. In relation to taxation, the...
Joan Walley | 511 c895 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Joan Walley | 511 c896 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his new post. My intervention, along with that of my hon....
Vincent Cable | 511 c897 (Link to this contribution) I would be very happy to meet the hon. Lady and her colleagues. Her colleague the hon. Member for St...
Pat McFadden | 511 c889 (Link to this contribution) The answer will be shorter than the question. I am aware of that report. However, my point is that i...
Robert Flello | 511 c889 (Link to this contribution) Returning to the subject of RDAs, a firm in my constituency wishes to bring the manufacture of ceram...
Pat McFadden | 511 c889-90 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. Sometimes a bit of investment from the public sector can lever in...
Adrian Bailey | 511 c890 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend quoted what I intended to say. I was a member of the Committee that produced th...
Mark Tami | 511 c888-9 (Link to this contribution) Is not Airbus a perfect example not only of how hundreds of millions of pounds have secured and crea...
Pat McFadden | 511 c889 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. A lot of industrial support is in the form of loans or loan guara...
Richard Graham | 511 c889 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman aware of last week's Centre for Cities report, which highlighted the gro...
Pat McFadden | 511 c888 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. That sounds like exactly the kind of project where Government, through the RDA, ...
Denis MacShane | 511 c891 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my right hon. Friend's robust point. The Prime Minister said that all that money w...
Pat McFadden | 511 c891 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a strong point, but I want to make progress. The previous Government's d...
Matt Hancock | 511 c890 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Speaker | 511 c890 (Link to this contribution) Order. So that I do not interrupt the flow of the right hon. Gentleman, I should say now that there ...
Pat McFadden | 511 c890 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to hear from my hon. Friend and I wish him well in his new role as the new Chairman of ...
Gordon Birtwistle | 511 c890 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the former Minister's conversion to a balanced economy? In that past 13 years, the pre...
Pat McFadden | 511 c886 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House notes the need for a clear deficit reduction plan, and that such a pl...
Robert Flello | 511 c886 (Link to this contribution) Such cuts will hit my constituency and those of my hon. Friends the Members for Stoke-on-Trent North...
Jim McGovern | 511 c888 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend is aware of how crucial the computer games industry is in my con...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 511 c887 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that a potential blight is being put on companies such as Airbus and...
Pat McFadden | 511 c887 (Link to this contribution) The review of industrial support decisions has indeed created damaging uncertainty that should be br...
Pat McFadden | 511 c888 (Link to this contribution) The creative industries, including those that my hon. Friend mentions, are absolutely critical for o...
Alex Cunningham | 511 c888 (Link to this contribution) This week, One NorthEast, the regional development agency in the north-east of England, confirmed a ...
Jim Cunningham | 511 c887 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the uncertainty about the future of Advantage West Midlands, fo...
Pat McFadden | 511 c887 (Link to this contribution) That policy was in our manifesto, and we believe it would make an important contribution to economic...
Pat McFadden | 511 c887 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Before the election we were told that £6 billion could be t...
Vincent Cable | 511 c903 (Link to this contribution) Of course we are happy to talk to the company any time, and my door is open, but if the hon. Gentlem...
Vincent Cable | 511 c903 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed; we are looking at all the projects in a completely practical way. As I said, some of th...
Mark Tami | 511 c903 (Link to this contribution) The Government are obviously fond of reviews. We are about to have a defence review, which will invo...
Vincent Cable | 511 c903 (Link to this contribution) That was not part of this exercise. The A400M is clearly a very important project, and we are lookin...
Andrew Miller | 511 c903 (Link to this contribution) I, too, have received the news from General Motors that it might choose not to proceed, because of t...
Ian Mearns | 511 c903 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State mentioned the due diligence being conducted on particular projects. The Prime...
Vincent Cable | 511 c902 (Link to this contribution) May I just finish this point? It is clear that the Opposition's response in the motion to the budge...
Geraint Davies | 511 c902 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
George Mudie | 511 c901 (Link to this contribution) Many of us have admired the right hon. Gentleman's pragmatism and judgment over the years, yet we re...
Vincent Cable | 511 c901 (Link to this contribution) Indeed they were, although I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman can quite make up his mind w...
George Mudie | 511 c900 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Vincent Cable | 511 c900-1 (Link to this contribution) I have taken a lot of interventions. I am always generous, but may I come back to the hon. Gentleman...
Esther McVey | 511 c981 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to what has been said this evening, and I would like to raise the concerns of small ...
Lord Willetts | 511 c978-9 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that we have had so many firsts in this debate. It is the first in which I have parti...
Lord Willetts | 511 c980 (Link to this contribution) I have very little time. Many Labour Members referred particularly to regional issues, and I have t...
Lord Willetts | 511 c979-80 (Link to this contribution) I hope that all hon. Members heard that intervention. We also had a maiden speech from the hon. Mem...
Lord Willetts | 511 c980-1 (Link to this contribution) We do believe that there are efficiencies to be made because of the very high overhead costs of RDAs...
Adrian Bailey | 511 c980 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman answer the query I posed in my contribution and tell us whether the mo...
Lord Willetts | 511 c980 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the Chairman of the Select Committee.
Guy Opperman | 511 c977 (Link to this contribution) I come from a family of manufacturers. I also come from the north-east, and I can assure the hon. Ge...
David Anderson | 511 c972-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a great privilege to speak before you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I congratulate you on your new r...
David Anderson | 511 c974 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not have time—I have to finish soon.
David Anderson | 511 c974 (Link to this contribution) No, I won't—I'll tell you the orders, right? The Robin Hood tax—a tax on banks' international finan...
Ian Lucas | 511 c974-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a delight to wind up this debate with you in the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker. As we have already ...
Lord Willetts | 511 c981-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. To indicate the challenge that we face, the previous Government ...
Toby Perkins | 511 c971 (Link to this contribution) Yes, if the hon. Gentleman promises to be brief.
Chris Heaton-Harris | 511 c971 (Link to this contribution) As a fellow east midlands MP and a former east midlands Member of the European Parliament, I thank t...
Toby Perkins | 511 c971-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman knows his local area better than I do. I do know, however, that De...
Toby Perkins | 511 c970 (Link to this contribution) That was a brave attempt. Before the hon. Lady spoke, I thought we had already been patronised more ...
Claire O'Neill | 511 c970 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Toby Perkins | 511 c970-1 (Link to this contribution) No, I should like to make progress. Other Members wish to speak. My background as a small business ...
Claire O'Neill | 511 c970 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Toby Perkins | 511 c970 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is a great pleasure to speak for the first time in a debate chaire...
Chi Onwurah | 511 c969-70 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I will not give way. I have very little time and I know that other Members wish to speak...
Nadhim Zahawi | 511 c969 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to see a fellow engineer on the Opposition Benches. I recall the hon. Lady not wishing ...
Chi Onwurah | 511 c969 (Link to this contribution) I would thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention if I could understand the line that he is draw...
Claire O'Neill | 511 c966-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that important intervention. The whole issue of accountability and transp...
Chi Onwurah | 511 c968-9 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton South East (Mr McFadden) said at the beginning ...
Chi Onwurah | 511 c970 (Link to this contribution) No, I am afraid I have no time. Our competitors recognise the importance of supporting industry. Th...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c961-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to your position in the Chair today, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is a pleasure to speak in ...
Harriett Baldwin | 511 c961 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I was outlining some of the other ways in which Gover...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c962 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I think that we can tell from the debate today tha...
John Hayes | 511 c962 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is already a distinguished and articulate advocate of her cause—I note it from her man...
Ian Mearns | 511 c960-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcomed the hon. Lady's comment about the number of Members from the north-east of England who ha...
Harriett Baldwin | 511 c959-60 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to take part in this Opposition day debate on Government support for industry. It w...
Amber Rudd | 511 c961 (Link to this contribution) Delightful though it always is to hear about the north-east, may I add that we have a town in the so...
Harriett Baldwin | 511 c961 (Link to this contribution) I love visiting the north-east. I wish that the weather were a bit better for the beaches, but it is...
Andrew Miller | 511 c957-9 (Link to this contribution) I am counting every one of them, and if I have to come back and agree with the hon. Gentleman in a y...
John Hayes | 511 c957 (Link to this contribution) I could not intervene on a less experienced or distinguished hon. Gentleman than the one who is spea...
Andrew Miller | 511 c957 (Link to this contribution) That is a bit rich, coming from the hon. Gentleman. He really is rewriting history. He must acknowle...
Richard Graham | 511 c957 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Does he agree that one of the main reasons for t...
Andrew Miller | 511 c957 (Link to this contribution) May I please finish? I could not agree more with my right hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton ...
Richard Graham | 511 c957 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Pat McFadden | 511 c956 (Link to this contribution) Does not my hon. Friend agree, however, that the delay involved in this case should serve as a warni...
Richard Graham | 511 c956 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Andrew Miller | 511 c956 (Link to this contribution) May I join others in congratulating you, sitting there in your smart attire, Mr Deputy Speaker, and ...
Nadhim Zahawi | 511 c966 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the real problem with these quangos is accountability? A very good lo...
Claire O'Neill | 511 c965-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for your tutorial on how to be a good parliamentarian. I fear that man...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c964 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. This Government—the party of the hon. Member for West Worcestershire (...
Speaker | 511 c964 (Link to this contribution) Order. Hon. Members can, by all means, seek to intervene, but if the Member does not give way, they ...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c965 (Link to this contribution) The reason that I talk so passionately today about regional development agencies is that they are wh...
Nick de Bois | 511 c964 (Link to this contribution) What I am hearing today is that growth depends entirely on regional development agencies. We have to...
Matt Hancock | 511 c965 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that there is a short-term populism that pushes us towards more Government ...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c965 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. I hope that I have made it clear that I support th...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c964 (Link to this contribution) Sorry, as I am still on my feet—
Rachel Reeves | 511 c964 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an important intervention, because cuts were already proposed. The hon. Member f...
Harriett Baldwin | 511 c964 (Link to this contribution) I seek clarification, because cuts were announced by the previous Government and I want to find out ...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c962-3 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am sorry for my enthusiasm. I welcome the clarification from the ho...
Speaker | 511 c962 (Link to this contribution) Order. Only one Member can be on their feet at any one time. Please allow the Member to finish befor...
Matt Hancock | 511 c962 (Link to this contribution) Given what the hon. Lady has just said, does she support the Government policy on RDAs, which is to ...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c964 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way once I have finished citing these examples. Some £3.2 million that would have suppo...
Nadhim Zahawi | 511 c963 (Link to this contribution) What does the hon. Lady think about scrapping the national insurance hike for employers? A lot of em...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c948 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to correct the hon. Gentleman again. He is right to correct himself—the deficit, not the ...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c949 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is being quite clever and fixing the measuring rod. Gordon Brown, the former Prime Mi...
Alan Campbell | 511 c950 (Link to this contribution) One at a time! As my right hon. Friend made clear, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skil...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c950 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that he accepts the need for cuts—for the deficit to be dealt with. Where do...
Alan Campbell | 511 c950 (Link to this contribution) I have news for the hon. Gentleman: he is sitting on the Government Benches. It is up to the Governm...
Alan Campbell | 511 c949-50 (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to your new post, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am not sure about the Aladdin analogy. I am, h...
David Anderson | 511 c949 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman spoke about fairy tales and Bible stories. Some of us lived the reality. Some of ...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c949 (Link to this contribution) I am not talking about the 18 years from 1979 to 1997. I am talking about the 13 years in which we l...
Phil Wilson | 511 c945-7 (Link to this contribution) First, I thank hon. Members on both sides of the House who have made their maiden speech today, espe...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c947-8 (Link to this contribution) During the 2005 election, we were—[Interruption]. If I may continue. The general Aladdin's lamp app...
Phil Wilson | 511 c948 (Link to this contribution) I was pointing out that, because of Government intervention, we were creating jobs, especially in th...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c948 (Link to this contribution) With respect, the idea that, somehow, our wealth was purely predicated on Government spending is exa...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c947 (Link to this contribution) This is the first time I have had the privilege of speaking while you are in the Chair, Mr Deputy Sp...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c947 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman remember that the financial crisis happened across the whole world? Does he ...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c947 (Link to this contribution) I remember that very well, but I would point out that, in the five years before the crisis that the ...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c947 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman give us an example of when the Conservative party opposed our spending plans?...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c948 (Link to this contribution) I am fully aware of those facts. The figures show that the ratio of our debt to GDP is 12%. That is ...
Matt Hancock | 511 c954-5 (Link to this contribution) I think that is one for the Budget statement on Tuesday. Finally, we are starting to get the answer...
Matt Hancock | 511 c954 (Link to this contribution) We have not heard a single consequence of the £50 billion cuts that the Labour party would have had ...
Matt Hancock | 511 c955 (Link to this contribution) It would be a delight to give way to the hon. Lady, who has made so many fascinating interventions t...
Claire O'Neill | 511 c955 (Link to this contribution) I want to emphasise that point. We heard so much about the financial stability that the previous Gov...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c955 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has quoted a fascinating statistic, but does it not fly in the face of what those...
Matt Hancock | 511 c955 (Link to this contribution) Interest rates are going down in the market because people can see a Government who are taking actio...
Matt Hancock | 511 c950 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman talks about cuts that were identified by Labour. We all know that the Labour figu...
Alan Campbell | 511 c950-1 (Link to this contribution) I would first mention the battle for savings that every police force has to deliver while protecting...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c951 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Alan Campbell | 511 c951-2 (Link to this contribution) No. The hon. Gentleman has had his chance. One NorthEast has been a leading player in the New and R...
Alan Campbell | 511 c952 (Link to this contribution) Not at the minute. I will if I have time later. The Government need to accept, as the Opposition ac...
Matt Hancock | 511 c952-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to catch your eye, Mr Deputy Speaker, and to see you in the Chair. I am glad to see...
Alan Campbell | 511 c953 (Link to this contribution) I identified £116 million of back-office savings that police forces were instructed to make. That is...
Matt Hancock | 511 c953 (Link to this contribution) It is £116 million of unspecified cuts, which is precisely the point that I was making.
Alan Campbell | 511 c953 (Link to this contribution) It is not for us to tell police forces where they should make cuts. It is for us to set the police b...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 511 c938 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady suggest how Government might intervene to stop that?
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 511 c938-9 (Link to this contribution) Obviously I am not running the Treasury, and I am not the Chancellor of the Exchequer. [Hon. Members...
Andrew Miller | 511 c939 (Link to this contribution) May I commend to the hon. Lady the most recent report of the Regulatory Reform Committee, published ...
Speaker | 511 c940 (Link to this contribution) Order. The conventions of the maiden speech apply.
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 511 c938 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. I noticed a certain amount of eye rolling when an earlier spea...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 511 c938 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful case. Was not the entire strategy of the former Labour Government pr...
Nadhim Zahawi | 511 c934-5 (Link to this contribution) I am going to answer the hon. Gentleman. At the same time, we have to remember that we are currently...
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 511 c934 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way—I believe that this might be his first run at act...
Nadhim Zahawi | 511 c934 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we look at whatever area we can support, but at the same time—
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 511 c937 (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Barnsley East (Michael Dugher) on his confident and we...
Matt Hancock | 511 c937 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my bafflement that all the speeches that we have heard from Labour Members...
Speaker | 511 c935 (Link to this contribution) Order. The conventions of the maiden speech apply. I call Michael Dugher.
Nadhim Zahawi | 511 c933-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for North West Durham (Pat Glass) on her passionate speech about her ...
Speaker | 511 c930 (Link to this contribution) Order. The conventions for maiden speeches now apply.
Jack Dromey | 511 c927-8 (Link to this contribution) I will come to the truth about Advantage West Midlands in a moment. The truth is the opposite of wha...
Gordon Birtwistle | 511 c928 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman explain to me where the 400,000 jobs came from, as a result of the car scrapp...
Jack Dromey | 511 c928-9 (Link to this contribution) First, the reference was to 400,000 cars. Secondly, the companies are British-based world class manu...
Mary MacLeod | 511 c929-30 (Link to this contribution) I thank those who made their maiden speeches today. It is so good to hear them participate in a deba...
Brian Binley | 511 c927 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman explain why, when Labour came to office, Northampton was 440th in the long l...
Jack Dromey | 511 c927 (Link to this contribution) A Labour Government in the most difficult times did not do what a Conservative Government did in the...
Christopher Pincher | 511 c927 (Link to this contribution) I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman. We are both Members of Parliament in the west midlands, and he w...
Jack Dromey | 511 c926-7 (Link to this contribution) First, I congratulate you, Madam Deputy Speaker, on your election and the hon. Member for Bracknell ...
Nick de Bois | 511 c926 (Link to this contribution) The word "regulation" is often bandied around. Although many people hear it, they do not appreciate ...
Sajid Javid | 511 c926 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and I think that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation an...
David Anderson | 511 c925 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes the point that the cuts are Labour's. Earlier this year, the OECD said that...
Sajid Javid | 511 c925-6 (Link to this contribution) A few weeks ago, the OECD, the G7 and the International Monetary Fund said that we have no choice bu...
Speaker | 511 c924 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his enthusiasm, but it is up to me to decide whether it is a...
Sajid Javid | 511 c924-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate Members who have made their maiden speech today—my hon. Friend the Member for Brackne...
Guy Opperman | 511 c924 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr Skinner) may have been h...
Andrew Percy | 511 c920 (Link to this contribution) I am a former schoolteacher, and I am sure my hon. Friend will agree with me that what has happened ...
Margot James | 511 c920-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that excellent intervention. I was going to go on to make that point myse...
Jonathan Edwards | 511 c910 (Link to this contribution) On Monday I visited a firm in my constituency which employs 25 people and has a turnover of about £1...
Adrian Bailey | 511 c911 (Link to this contribution) Yes. The days when the economy could be divided between the public and the private sector are long g...
Sharon Hodgson | 511 c913-5 (Link to this contribution) I am thrilled to be able to welcome you to the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker. I congratulate the hon. ...
Tony Baldry | 511 c916-7 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bracknell (Dr Lee) on a truly outstanding maiden speech...
Rachel Reeves | 511 c920 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for giving way. I am surprised by what she says about apprenticeships, because...
Margot James | 511 c920 (Link to this contribution) I must congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Bracknell (Dr Lee) on his excellent maiden speech,...
Margot James | 511 c920 (Link to this contribution) There is a big problem with apprenticeships for a lot of people in my constituency. The college fund...
Catherine McKinnell | 511 c908 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Vincent Cable | 511 c908 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. The basic problem—and the reason that it is taking some time to explain th...
Adrian Bailey | 511 c909 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the right hon. Gentleman to his new post. I know that he is committed to industry and manu...
Vincent Cable | 511 c908-9 (Link to this contribution) I have taken enough interventions. To conclude as I started, we need private sector-led growth to o...
Adrian Bailey | 511 c910 (Link to this contribution) I am committed to public sector workers, but I am equally committed to those in the private sector. ...
Therese Coffey | 511 c910 (Link to this contribution) I understand the passion felt by the hon. Gentleman on behalf of public sector workers in particular...
Adrian Bailey | 511 c910 (Link to this contribution) I agree completely. Many companies made the point vigorously that if they went down now, future tax ...
Mark Tami | 511 c909 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that a lot of those manufacturers, and especially the smaller ones, feared...
Vincent Cable | 511 c907 (Link to this contribution) I will move on. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman appears to be grumbling from a sedentary position...
Vincent Cable | 511 c908 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly the point. In parts of the country, the sub-regional approach may be more sensible, ...
Andrew Percy | 511 c908 (Link to this contribution) As someone who represents a constituency in Yorkshire and Humber, may I welcome the moves to abolish...
John Hemming | 511 c908 (Link to this contribution) To explain the point to the Opposition, geography varies around the country. The west midlands has a...
David Lammy | 511 c908 (Link to this contribution) This is sounding a bit like an episode of Bird and Fortune. Will the Secretary of State confirm that...
Vincent Cable | 511 c908 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman misunderstands completely. [Hon. Members: "Oh."] He is confusing two differ...
Vincent Cable | 511 c907 (Link to this contribution) Well, it will certainly change. We are leaving it to local people to decide. This is a very original...
Phil Wilson | 511 c907 (Link to this contribution) For clarification, the right hon. Gentleman is saying that the regional development agencies are goi...
Vincent Cable | 511 c906-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says huge investment. I do not know what Department he served in, but the respons...
Vincent Cable | 511 c907 (Link to this contribution) For the avoidance of all doubt, they will be replaced, but the structures that emerge could have a r...
Pat McFadden | 511 c907 (Link to this contribution) I genuinely seek clarification because I am confused by what the Secretary of State is saying. A few...
Vincent Cable | 511 c907 (Link to this contribution) Let me finish my point. The north-east councils and local businesses might prefer a structure like t...
David Lammy | 511 c905 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Vincent Cable | 511 c905 (Link to this contribution) Let me finish the point. A very rapid move was taken to introduce high-quality apprenticeships —exac...
Vincent Cable | 511 c905 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, 250,000. We introduced 50,000 within three weeks. There is a very strong commitment—[Int...
David Lammy | 511 c905 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman acknowledge that there is a big difference between suggesting that we ...
Vincent Cable | 511 c905-6 (Link to this contribution) The money has been made available; that is the key point. We know from the National Apprenticeship S...
Vincent Cable | 511 c904-5 (Link to this contribution) I know that my colleague takes a close interest in these matters. She has represented the interests ...
Baroness Burt of Solihull | 511 c904 (Link to this contribution) Land Rover, in my constituency, is another brilliant example of a company that has weathered the eco...
Vincent Cable | 511 c903 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is showing some indignation. I am so used to hon. Members asking for more money, ...
Andrew Miller | 511 c903 (Link to this contribution) The company is to make a statement in three quarters of an hour. Will the Secretary of State retain ...
Vincent Cable | 511 c904 (Link to this contribution) I cannot negotiate across the debating Chamber on the basis of announcements that are being made out...
Gavin Shuker | 511 c904 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Vincent Cable | 511 c904 (Link to this contribution) I have taken an enormous number of interventions; I will take one from the hon. Gentleman later. Be...
Pat McFadden | 511 c894 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Lady cares about these issues, but I have to disagree with that point. Until th...
Pat McFadden | 511 c890 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman sums up the problem with the attitude of the Liberal Democrats. They are determin...
Speaker | 511 c886 (Link to this contribution) I inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of the Prime Minister.
Ian Lucas | 511 c977-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should not lecture me about manufacturing in the north-east. My father worked for...
Speaker | 511 c982 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby.
Rachel Reeves | 511 c963-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. What he describes perhaps comes up less in my cons...
Matt Hancock | 511 c948 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware that Great Britain went into the recession with the largest budget deficit i...
Phil Wilson | 511 c954 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman believe that VAT should go up next week?
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 511 c939-40 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, and I shall certainly look at the report, but I know from my bu...
Therese Coffey | 511 c942-5 (Link to this contribution) This is the first time that I have spoken in a debate when you have been in the Chair, Mr Deputy Spe...
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 511 c937-8 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. Manufacturing has fallen at a faster rate over the past 13 yea...
Andrew Miller | 511 c956 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not for the moment. The Secretary of State and I had a short exchange about Vauxhall Mot...
Speaker | 511 c927 (Link to this contribution) Order. Interventions should be short.
Vincent Cable | 511 c908 (Link to this contribution) I will take one more intervention, from the right hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr Lammy), and then con...
Vincent Cable | 511 c903 (Link to this contribution) Well, the hon. Gentleman said that he wanted to support a new-generation project—
Richard Burden | 511 c898 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the activist approach towards banks that the Secretary of State is outlining. He will be a...
Vincent Cable | 511 c899-900 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Lady was reading the newspapers when she was campaigning for election...
Tony Baldry | 511 c893 (Link to this contribution) Earlier, the right hon. Gentleman accepted the need to control the budget deficit. Is there any area...
Pat McFadden | 511 c891 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make some progress but I will give way later. I was speaking about the timing of the ...
Vincent Cable | 511 c901-2 (Link to this contribution) Of course there are dangers, and I spelled out earlier the twin dangers that we have to balance very...
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Manufacturing industries
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