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Sheffield Forgemasters

Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 21 July 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Clive Betts. The answering member was Mark Prisk.
Adjournment debate on the loan to Sheffield Forgemasters.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
514 c523-32 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Mark Prisk | 514 c532 (Link to this contribution) No. I have 60 seconds left and I want to ensure that I draw my thoughts to a conclusion. Business i...
Clive Betts | 514 c523-4 (Link to this contribution) Normally when a Member speaks in an Adjournment debate at this time of night, they stand in the Cham...

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Clive Betts | 514 c523 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker—[Interruption.]
Angela C Smith | 514 c524 (Link to this contribution) I have here correspondence released following a freedom of information request. It indicates that An...
Clive Betts | 514 c525 (Link to this contribution) I have not heard any other reason. I have read out four reasons, all of which have been proved to be...
Mark Prisk | 514 c525-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts) on securing this debate. I suspec...
Mark Prisk | 514 c531 (Link to this contribution) No, because the hon. Member for Sheffield South East has asked questions that need to be answered—[I...
Mark Prisk | 514 c531 (Link to this contribution) I will come to the letter in a moment. The hon. Member for Sheffield South East asked me what affor...
Mark Prisk | 514 c531 (Link to this contribution) No, because it is important that I try to answer some of the other questions that were raised and I ...
Mark Prisk | 514 c530 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I entirely agree with that. I turn now to some of the other questions...
Albert Owen | 514 c530 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Minister said that people from Wales and other parts of...
Speaker | 514 c530 (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order for the Chair, and the Minister is responsible for the interventions th...
Barry Sheerman | 514 c530 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The Minister alleged earlier that there were all sorts of p...
Speaker | 514 c530 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is responsible for his own speech. A number of questions have been asked, which the Min...
Mark Prisk | 514 c531-2;514 c532 (Link to this contribution) Of course I saw the letter, because it was emailed to me. As I have made clear, it was apparent from...
Pat McFadden | 514 c532 (Link to this contribution) If the Minister says tonight that this decision had nothing to do with the directors' shareholdings,...
Mark Prisk | 514 c532 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman usually makes intelligent contributions, but that was just part of the knoc...
Mark Prisk | 514 c528 (Link to this contribution) That is not actually what the statement says. The decision was taken by the Government as a whole, a...
Paul Blomfield | 514 c528 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister therefore concur with the statement from Downing street that the decision was sole...
Mark Prisk | 514 c527-8 (Link to this contribution) Just one moment, because I think that the letter to which we are referring is not something that all...
Lord Blunkett | 514 c526-7 (Link to this contribution) But if the reasoning is not the letter from Andrew Cook or some other spurious reason that has alrea...
Denis MacShane | 514 c526 (Link to this contribution) What comment would the hon. Gentleman make on the allegations by the Deputy Prime Minister that Dr H...
Mark Prisk | 514 c526 (Link to this contribution) This decision has got nothing to do with dilution of equity, which I shall come to in a moment in de...
Mark Prisk | 514 c527 (Link to this contribution) No. Let me make this very clear: in the letter that Mr Cook wrote, he mentioned a number of things. ...
Mark Prisk | 514 c527 (Link to this contribution) I am just about to come to that. I believe that the critical issue here is affordability. We have ha...
Angela C Smith | 514 c527 (Link to this contribution) I respect the way in which the Minister is trying to respond to the debate tonight, but is not the £...
Mark Prisk | 514 c529 (Link to this contribution) When it was the right hon. Gentleman who told us in a letter that there was no money left, it is a l...
Liam Byrne | 514 c529 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the argument that the Minister is rehearsing this evening. As the Chief Secretary to th...
Mark Prisk | 514 c529-30 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that Ministers receive a wide range of different advic...
Liam Byrne | 514 c529 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the partisan point that the Minister is trying to rehearse. My question was much simple...
Caroline Flint | 514 c528 (Link to this contribution) We have already heard that Andrew Cook, a Tory donor, has approached and lobbied the Government on t...
Mark Prisk | 514 c528 (Link to this contribution) That is complete nonsense from the right hon. Lady. The sad part about this is that while I totally ...
Mark Prisk | 514 c528-9 (Link to this contribution) I will move on, because the hon. Member for Sheffield South East, the constituency Member of Parliam...
Meg Munn | 514 c529 (Link to this contribution) I am listening to the Minister very carefully and he is making a great deal of the issue of unafford...
Mark Prisk | 514 c529 (Link to this contribution) There are difficult decisions in this issue, and we have taken the view that the project is unafford...
Mark Prisk | 514 c529 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way. The right hon. Gentleman can shout and scream all he wants. I will try to a...
Speaker | 514 c523 (Link to this contribution) Order. Would Members who are leaving the Chamber do so quietly?
Subjects
Employment
Finance
Private sector
Manufacturing industries
Loans
Sheffield Forgemasters
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