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Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 27 January 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Ian Pearson.

Automotive Industry

Statement on the Government's plans to help the British automotive industry to weather the downturn in the global economy.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
487 c165-80 
Session
2008-09
Department
Treasury
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Manufacturing Industries: Motor Vehicles
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Written questions
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Ian Pearson | 487 c180 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. The RDAs, with Business Link as their agent, have a primary ...
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Ian Pearson | 487 c179 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right to point out the importance of the green and training components ...
Adrian Bailey | 487 c180 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the measures taken by the Government, but I want to stress that their success or otherwise...
Margaret Moran | 487 c179 (Link to this contribution) I particularly welcome the training and greening initiatives that my hon. Friend has outlined, which...
Ian Pearson | 487 c179 (Link to this contribution) I have been at pains to stress that the measures we are announcing, which will provide guarantees th...
Ian Pearson | 487 c170 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a long-standing expert on these matters, and he is absolutely right. Under the EIB...
Viscount Thurso | 487 c170 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his usual courtesy in supplying an advance copy of the statement. I also we...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 487 c167-8 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by thanking the Minister for welcoming me to my new position? I think I have debated mat...
Ian Pearson | 487 c168-9 (Link to this contribution) I think I am going to enjoy debating with the right hon. and learned Gentleman downstairs as much as...
Geoffrey Robinson | 487 c169-70 (Link to this contribution) May I reassure my hon. Friend that there will be a warm welcome on this side of the House for his st...
Ian Pearson | 487 c165-7 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I shall repeat a statement made by my noble Friend the Secretary of St...
Speaker | 487 c166 (Link to this contribution) Order. Hon. Members must listen to the Minister. He is putting a statement before the House, which i...
Anne Main | 487 c178 (Link to this contribution) Access to credit and loans is not working in the way that the Government would like. In my constitue...
Ian Pearson | 487 c178 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to stress the importance of the automotive industry to his constituency, and...
Alan Simpson | 487 c178 (Link to this contribution) General support schemes for industry can do a range of things, but they do not green industry by one...
Ian Pearson | 487 c178 (Link to this contribution) In the first instance, if the hon. Lady wants to e-mail me with the details I can get some officials...
Edward Timpson | 487 c177 (Link to this contribution) There has been a severe slump in car sales at Bentley Motors, the largest employer in my constituenc...
Ian Pearson | 487 c177 (Link to this contribution) Jaguar Land Rover is an important car company for the United Kingdom. It has a significant research ...
James Plaskitt | 487 c178 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be aware of the importance of the industry in my west midlands constituency, whi...
Ian Pearson | 487 c177-8 (Link to this contribution) Bentley is a great brand, but I know that the company is having difficulties, because as with other ...
John Howell | 487 c179 (Link to this contribution) I have listened to the statement twice and I am none the wiser as to how many new cars the money wil...
Ian Pearson | 487 c179 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I do not think the German scrappage scheme is necessarily quite as straightforward as it ...
Ian Pearson | 487 c176 (Link to this contribution) We are happy to look at all constructive suggestions about what more we can do to help the van and t...
Lindsay Hoyle | 487 c176 (Link to this contribution) Following on from the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for South Ribble (Mr. Borrow), I point...
Ian Pearson | 487 c175-6 (Link to this contribution) The simple fact is that car sales have dropped almost all over the world: they are down significantl...
Andrew MacKay | 487 c175 (Link to this contribution) May I gently put it to the Minister that it was not synthetic anger that he heard from this side of ...
Ian Pearson | 487 c175 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. The automotive sector does, of course, encompass the commerc...
Ian Pearson | 487 c175 (Link to this contribution) When we made our statements on the working credit scheme and the enterprise finance guarantee, we sa...
Jim Cunningham | 487 c177 (Link to this contribution) May I suggest to the Minister that when the Government meet the car manufacturers tomorrow he should...
Ian Pearson | 487 c176-7 (Link to this contribution) That was a rather churlish response from the hon. Lady. She referred to Ford in Southampton, and I m...
Sandra Gidley | 487 c176 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will be aware that the commercial vehicle market is being hit harder than the car marke...
Lord Garnier | 487 c173 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister explain briefly the practical differences between the over-£25 million turnover and...
Ian Pearson | 487 c173 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a long-standing campaigner on these issues, and he has been pressing me and other ...
Richard Burden | 487 c173-4 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the efforts that my hon. Friend personally has made on this issue. Coming from the ...
Ian Pearson | 487 c173 (Link to this contribution) When the banks and Government are looking at these things in the normal way, we would not expect a c...
Ian Pearson | 487 c174 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a longstanding champion of the automotive industry and I thank him for his kind wo...
Tony Wright | 487 c174 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend see any role at all for a Government wage subsidy scheme for the automotive indu...
Ian Pearson | 487 c174 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman that it is important to increase demand. We all want to see greater ...
Michael Jack | 487 c175 (Link to this contribution) What steps is the Minister taking in the automotive industry to ensure that credit risk insurance is...
Ian Pearson | 487 c175 (Link to this contribution) What the Government have done so far is look at what measures we can provide to help companies with ...
Ian Pearson | 487 c171 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to say that the first priority is to stabilise the financial system. Tha...
Speaker | 487 c172 (Link to this contribution) Order. I will not allow this. It is within the rules of the House for the Minister concerned to come...
Peter Luff | 487 c172 (Link to this contribution) This should have been an important statement, and it should have been made to the House by a member ...
Andrew Miller | 487 c171 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the work being done jointly by Ministers in the Department for Innovation, Universities an...
Ian Pearson | 487 c172 (Link to this contribution) I have just made a wider point about the need for confidence in the economy, the measures that we ha...
Peter Luff | 487 c172 (Link to this contribution) My Committee has made its views clear, and I shall let our report speak for itself. However, this sh...
Speaker | 487 c172 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman must speak to the statement.
Fraser Kemp | 487 c173 (Link to this contribution) The car industry and its work force at Nissan in my constituency and throughout the United Kingdom h...
David S Borrow | 487 c175 (Link to this contribution) Can my hon. Friend confirm that the proposals he has announced today also apply to the commercial ve...
Adam Price | 487 c174 (Link to this contribution) Surely the purpose of Government intervention in the car industry at this time has to be to defend j...
Roger Williams | 487 c179-80 (Link to this contribution) It is difficult to overemphasise what a parlous financial state many car dealerships find themselves...
Ian Pearson | 487 c180 (Link to this contribution) I have heard what the hon. Gentleman has said. As I have said, we want Mervyn Davies to be actively ...
Ian Pearson | 487 c172 (Link to this contribution) I am always happy to meet my hon. Friend. There is a significant and complex issue to be grappled wi...
Subjects
Cars Exhaust emissions Government assistance Economic situation Electric vehicles Motor vehicles Manufacturing industries Pollution control Loans Government guaranteed credit European Investment Bank Research Training World economy
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