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Small Businesses

My Lords, I can only join my noble friend in hoping that the lead that we have given down here is followed up there, and I will be communicating that. It is not a question of ignoring anyone’s churlishness. If I went through my political life ignoring people’s churlishness, I would be left with very little to say. I shall end on a constructive and friendly note. I say to the House, the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, and the noble Baroness that they will be pleased to learn that the £350 million for training is additional training money for small businesses. It is existing money, but it was not previously available to small companies. In that spirit, I acknowledge that we were both right.