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AMENDMENT OF THE LAW

How many times do I have to explain? I and my colleagues would like our public sector to have more money and more people of the right sort to provide a better service. We are arguing about the speed at which that can be achieved and how it can be best achieved. It is best achieved if the private sector is growing more rapidly than it is growing in Britain under the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. As to the hon. Gentleman’s account of why businesses have gone to Ireland, I have spoken to a number of businesses over the years, as I do in my job as an MP and with my interest in economic competitiveness, and I must say to him that no business man who has been thinking of going to Ireland or who has gone to Ireland has ever said to me, ““I must go there because of their social partnership model.””