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Proceeding contribution from David TC Davies (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 1 March 2012. It occurred during Backbench debate on Welsh Affairs.


Welsh Affairs

I commend the hon. Lady for that, because she was doing absolutely the right thing. If Ford would like to relocate any of its factories on the Severn bridge industrial estate, I would quite happily stand up No. 10 to welcome it. The hon. Lady is not entirely right about one thing: one reason why I was so keen to go along and enjoy the glass of white wine that she mentioned is that it came from the Ancre Hill vineyard in my constituency, which was set up as a family business in 2007 and which has won many awards. It now exports wine to Australia. I was proud to go along and support that business. The only thing that saddened me about the whole evening was that when I watched ““Wales Today”” on iPlayer that night, I saw Betsan Powys saying that the Welsh Assembly Government had put out a statement saying that they wanted more than warm words and warm wine. May I say to the Welsh Assembly Government spokesman that that wine was not warm; it was superb. The Prime Minister wanted me to make clear today how much he and all those who drank the wine enjoyed it. The wine was chilled; I wish Members of the Welsh Assembly were.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
541 c503-4 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Constituencies Devolution NHS Members Public finance Reform Wales Trade promotion
Link
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