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UK Manufacturing

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

495 c1198-222 

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 495 c1203-4 (Link to this contribution) Order. I inform the House that Mr. Speaker had imposed a time limit of eight minutes on Back-Bench c...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1221-2 (Link to this contribution) This short debate has shown the passion that exists in this House on the issue of manufacturing. Of ...

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David Anderson | 495 c1219-21 (Link to this contribution) I did not think I would agree with much of what the Conservative Front-Bench spokesman said, but I d...

Nicholas Winterton | 495 c1215-6 (Link to this contribution) Manufacturing industry has always been my prime priority. Press articles this week entitled "Economy...

Nigel Evans | 495 c1216 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has listed some of the problems; does he agree with me that if Sir Alan Sugar is the ...

Nicholas Winterton | 495 c1216-7 (Link to this contribution) Inevitably, I share my hon. Friend's view on Mr. Alan Sugar—or should I now call him Lord Sugar? Per...

David Drew | 495 c1217-9 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will have heard my earlier intervention and my continuing plea, together with those of ...

Nigel Evans | 495 c1213-4 (Link to this contribution) It is apposite that we have the opportunity to debate UK manufacturing industries at this moment, du...

Nia Griffith | 495 c1214-5 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that we have the opportunity to discuss such an important subject. I welcome, as well as t...

Viscount Thurso | 495 c1211-3 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to welcome that development in Campbeltown. The danger is that other countries will see ...

Alan Reid | 495 c1210 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that the renewable energy industry gives a great opportunity for British man...

Viscount Thurso | 495 c1210 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by reiterating the written apology that I have made to you, Mr. Speaker, and through you...

Richard Burden | 495 c1208-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome a great deal of what my right hon. Friend the Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills...

John Penrose | 495 c1207 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman's point, but it is also true to say that in the past 10 years, this countr...

Mike Weir | 495 c1207 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman about energy prices. Is there not also a problem with the type of co...

John Penrose | 495 c1206 (Link to this contribution) I give way, but with trepidation.

Rob Marris | 495 c1206-7 (Link to this contribution) I quite agree with the hon. Gentleman: we cannot compete with India and China. We need capital inves...

Rob Marris | 495 c1200 (Link to this contribution) A golden thread running through manufacturing is the importance of investment in capital equipment, ...

Kelvin Hopkins | 495 c1200 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with my right hon. Friend about the importance of manufacturing and preparing for t...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1200 (Link to this contribution) That kind of policy is the last thing that our manufacturing industries need, particularly in the mi...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1202 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. We cannot insulate the country from closures—I do not pretend tha...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1202-3 (Link to this contribution) I have been in active contact with Corus in recent weeks. My sympathies go out to my hon. Friend's c...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1201 (Link to this contribution) The importance that we attach to that plant was evidenced recently by the visit of my right hon. Fri...

David Drew | 495 c1201 (Link to this contribution) We still have the ongoing debate about whether wage compensation is a realistic approach. It was dep...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1201-2 (Link to this contribution) Let us consider the European comparisons. We are not alone in our manufacturing industries being aff...

David Anderson | 495 c1202 (Link to this contribution) Is not our record in direct contrast to that of the Opposition, who actively closed coal mines, acti...

John Penrose | 495 c1204 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and I shall try to keep my comments as brief as possible to allow p...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1203 (Link to this contribution) It was announced in the Budget and plans will be brought forward over the coming months. The hon. Ge...

Adam Afriyie | 495 c1203 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is talking about industrial activism and support as regards climate change. That is all...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1205 (Link to this contribution) I agree that there has traditionally been difficulty in bringing great ideas from the laboratory to ...

John Penrose | 495 c1206 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have been able to give the Minister the opportunity to make that explanation. I am...

Nia Griffith | 495 c1205 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman tell us how many manufacturing jobs have been created under the Government?

John Penrose | 495 c1205 (Link to this contribution) I do not have a clue, but I am sure that either the hon. Lady or somebody with the appropriate note ...

Kelvin Hopkins | 495 c1204 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that one factor that has had a crucial effect on our manufacturing se...

John Penrose | 495 c1204-5 (Link to this contribution) I should love to agree, but I am afraid that I cannot. I am a free marketeer, and so believe that th...

Mike Weir | 495 c1198-9 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is talking about the new industries in manufacturing, which is very good, but he seemed...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1198 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept the assertion that we are not a manufacturing nation. We are the sixth largest manuf...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1199 (Link to this contribution) I am prepared to be open-minded and to accept criticism of Government policy from many quarters, but...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1199 (Link to this contribution) I did not dismiss the old industries; I reject that assertion. I believe that traditional manufactur...

Nigel Evans | 495 c1199 (Link to this contribution) We are now going to have more nuclear power stations, which I greatly welcome. Does the Minister agr...

Robert Smith | 495 c1200 (Link to this contribution) While praising excellent industries, I hope that the Minister also recognises just what a world lead...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1200 (Link to this contribution) My Department works very closely with the Department of Energy and Climate Change on these issues, a...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1199-200 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to be corrected by my hon. Friend, who anticipates what I am coming on to say about the i...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1200 (Link to this contribution) Many colleagues wish to intervene today. I will try to be generous, but I am keen to make progress.

Pat McFadden | 495 c1198 (Link to this contribution) I see that my hon. Friend is still anxious to get to his feet, so I shall give way to him.

Kelvin Hopkins | 495 c1198 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way. I want to be as supportive as possible, but I have to q...

Pat McFadden | 495 c1198 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of UK manufacturing." The business of maki...

Kelvin Hopkins | 495 c1198 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Pat McFadden | 495 c1198 (Link to this contribution) Not for the moment, as I am only one sentence into my speech. Since the time of the industrial revo...

John Penrose | 495 c1207-8 (Link to this contribution) The effects are many. The hon. Gentleman has picked up one, and it is a major factor. It is extremel...

Ian Cawsey | 495 c1202 (Link to this contribution) Although I welcome the measures that the Government have put in place to keep the manufacturing sect...

Fraser Kemp | 495 c1199 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister think that an excellent example of how traditional industries can modernise for th...

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Costs Coal Competition Employment Innovation Economic situation Manufacturing industries Mining Regional planning and development Skilled workers Shipbuilding Economic recession World economy

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