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Productivity

Proceeding contribution from Ian Blackford (Scottish National Party) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 17 June 2015. It occurred during Opposition day on Productivity.

What the Chief Secretary is saying does not meet the reality of what has been happening for the past seven years. Productivity in the UK has fallen and the Government have failed to deliver prosperity. The root of that has been the failure of macroeconomic policy. Your big idea was quantitative easing, with

£375 billion of new assets being created, but none of that has fed through to bank lending. That is why we have not seen the underlying investment in our economy that is required. You need to address that and make sure that we see investment in infrastructure, industrial investment and a plan for growth, not some meaningless productivity, which is just hot air and words, but no reality.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
597 c392 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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