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Economic Recovery

The right hon. Gentleman’s exposition of what he thinks should be done is interesting, but when he was a member of the previous Government, we had similar problems with apprenticeships. During the last recession, under the previous Government—I worked for Rolls-Royce at the time, so I know a little about this—the first casualty was always the apprenticeships. We talk about companies such as Rolls-Royce, and aid for them. The previous Government talked about lift-off aid—or something like that—but this Government brought in tax credits for companies such as Rolls-Royce and so helped them with research and development.