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Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Monday, 14 September 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Jonathan Shaw. The answering member was Lord Howard of Lympne.

Identifying Growth Sectors in the South East Economy

South East Regional Grand Committee debate to consider the matter of identifying the growth sectors of the South East economy and ensuring that their growth is maximised. (Committee sitting in Reading).

Secondary information

Type
Grand Committee proceedings (HC)
Reference
SERGC c19-44 
Session
2008-09
Department
Minister for the South East
Committee
South East Regional Grand Committee
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons Grand Committees
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2009-2429
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | SERGC c39-40 (Link to this contribution) In oral questions earlier, I raised the issue of the massive Pyestock warehouse development, which w...
Phyllis Starkey | SERGC c40 (Link to this contribution) I will of necessity be brief, but I want to make three points about my constituency. First, the Milt...
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Lord Howard of Lympne | SERGC c31 (Link to this contribution) We all look forward to the graph that the Minister promised us. He said that it would make it clear ...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c35 (Link to this contribution) Colleagues, seven Members want to speak before we start the wind-ups. I intend to try to get everyon...
Charles Hendry | SERGC c23 (Link to this contribution) Some while ago I asked a parliamentary question about how many schemes were available to support bus...
Lord Howard of Lympne | SERGC c23 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said a moment ago that he cannot allow one business to go under because it did not know...
Lord Howard of Lympne | SERGC c29-30 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to express a view on the relative states of knowledge of the Minister and the Business Se...
Lord Redwood | SERGC c30 (Link to this contribution) Did my right hon. and learned Friend know that the hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West complai...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c26 (Link to this contribution) The reductions in the RDA budgets to which the right hon. Gentleman referred have been about a repri...
Ian Taylor | SERGC c26 (Link to this contribution) I am listening very carefully; the Minister is giving some interesting facts. However, he must be co...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c19 (Link to this contribution) I was aware that some hon. Members went out, but I thought it would be beneficial for the report to ...
Lord Redwood | SERGC c19 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Hancock. When reporting back this farce, could you also say that it is not ...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c19 (Link to this contribution) I have just been presented with a copy of it, Mr. Bottomley, and like you, I do not think I will hav...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c20 (Link to this contribution) Well spotted, Mr. Howarth. I am delighted that you have had time to read the report and get down to ...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c19 (Link to this contribution) Again, that is a very good point, Mr. Bottomley. The report is available for Members if they want it...
Peter Bottomley | SERGC c19 (Link to this contribution) On a further point of order, Mr. Hancock. As a courtesy to the Chairman, and before we get into the ...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c19 (Link to this contribution) We now have until 1 o’clock to debate the motion. For those who wish to speak, I intend to get as ma...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | SERGC c41-2 (Link to this contribution) By definition, we have had something of a limited debate today in this Regional Grand Committee, bec...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c40 (Link to this contribution) I call Dr. Starkey. There will then be one minute for Mr. Bottomley. We will then move on - sorry ab...
Peter Bottomley | SERGC c40-1 (Link to this contribution) First, I congratulate people on the reprinting of the Select Committee report and on getting the pag...
Stephen Ladyman | SERGC c35-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Hancock. I will try to be brief and try to keep to your stricture of speaking for jus...
Maria Miller | SERGC c37-8 (Link to this contribution) The south-east is the most important part of the powerhouse of the British economy, and contributes ...
Lord Whitehead | SERGC c38-9 (Link to this contribution) I want to deal with the motion with particular respect to the city of Southampton, and discuss the p...
Lord Redwood | SERGC c33-4 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that the Government have got the power to address that issue? I have no wis...
Peter Bottomley | SERGC c43 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Hancock. Normally, it is not important to correct what a Minister has said,...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c23 (Link to this contribution) I shall take my hon. Friend's intervention, but I am bursting to respond to the hon. Member for Weal...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c24 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a little progress. The mortgage rescue scheme helps individuals. The ““time to pay”” ...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c22 (Link to this contribution) I would like to make a little more progress before giving way. The south-east has not fared as badl...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c22-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. She referred to the enterprise finance guaran...
Rob Wilson | SERGC c29 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my right hon. and learned Friend that it is brave of the Minister to choose this subjec...
Evan Harris | SERGC c31 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman is right to draw attention to the Government’s lamentable recor...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c24-5 (Link to this contribution) I have been referring to the initiatives that we have introduced, such as the prompt payment code, t...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c25 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. What is also important is for the organisation to be attracting...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c26-7 (Link to this contribution) It is not much of a speech—I think that the hon. Gentleman would agree. As he will know, the regiona...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c20 (Link to this contribution) That is not a point of order, Mr. Smith. It is for the parties in the House to make a decision on th...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c21 (Link to this contribution) In response to the right hon. Gentleman, I am looking forward to reading the report and seeing what ...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | SERGC c20 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to have to tell the Minister that I have not read it because only 20 copies have been del...
Andrew Smith | SERGC c20 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Hancock. Would not the protestations from Conservative Members carry more f...
Peter Bottomley | SERGC c19 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order. Apologies, Mr. Hancock. I acknowledge that this is my second point of order. Yo...
Sandra Gidley | SERGC c34-5 (Link to this contribution) There is an element of that. The Government have allowed the banks to get away with far too much. I ...
Sandra Gidley | SERGC c33 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for that intervention. It is also my experience that loans have to be secured ...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | SERGC c32 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Hancock. Now that the Minister himself has left the room, is it appropriate...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c32 (Link to this contribution) Rather than adjourn - I will not give chapter and verse on why the Minister has left, but it is for ...
Sandra Gidley | SERGC c32 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to keep my comments brief. I apologise to the Committee that, due to a prior engagement,...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c43-4 (Link to this contribution) Our area generates a great deal of wealth. We have invested hugely in the infrastructure not only fo...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c24 (Link to this contribution) I will try not to do so. An example of when the Government’s initiatives have assisted is the prompt...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c24 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Minister does not burst when trying to answer the question of the hon. Member for We...
Stephen Ladyman | SERGC c24 (Link to this contribution) I just want to point out that, if the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe had rea...
Lord Redwood | SERGC c22 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister, who is being generous in giving way. He has challenged Opposition Mem...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c22 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that the regional assembly has been abolished. We cannot live...
Michael Fallon | SERGC c21 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minster for giving way so early in his speech. Given that the Budget’s Red Book...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c21 (Link to this contribution) A reduction in capital expenditure will undoubtedly mean that the type of investments that we want t...
Phyllis Starkey | SERGC c30 (Link to this contribution) Since my words have been taken in vain and the right hon. Member for Wokingham has attempted to re-r...
Lord Howard of Lympne | SERGC c30 (Link to this contribution) May I reply to my right hon. Friend? Not only is there the point made by my right hon. Friend, which...
Ian Taylor | SERGC c31 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, it needs to be checked more carefully, but I suspect that the company that benefited from...
Lord Howard of Lympne | SERGC c30 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady may not take kindly what I am about to say, but I am going to give her a piece of advi...
Evan Harris | SERGC c25 (Link to this contribution) In answer to an earlier question, the Minister mentioned Diamond Light Source. I should be grateful ...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c26 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that that is quite enough for an intervention. That was more of a speech.
Lord Howard of Lympne | SERGC c27-8 (Link to this contribution) First, I join the Minister in thanking Reading borough council for the hospitality that it has affor...
Tim Loughton | SERGC c20 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Hancock.
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c20 (Link to this contribution) No. I am not taking any more points of order on this matter. We have to move on to the debate.
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c20-1 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately there were not enough copies when they first came in. I have been assured by the Clerk...
Gerald Howarth | SERGC c19-20 (Link to this contribution) On a further point of order, Mr. Hancock. This matter is such a farce that the report, which was cle...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c42-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank hon. Members for their contributions. Many referred to the work of the Select Committee and ...
Evan Harris | SERGC c36-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to make one point per 30 seconds. If the Minister cannot respond to them in his speech, ...
Sandra Gidley | SERGC c33 (Link to this contribution) It is a pity that the Minister cannot hear all the comments being made, because it might be helpful ...
Phyllis Starkey | SERGC c33 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her support. May I add to her list the fact that banks habitually...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c32 (Link to this contribution) Order. I thought that a Member was leaving the room. I just want to make it clear that at all times ...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c44 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry, Mr. Shaw, but time has beaten us. There are three clocks here—the bell outside, t...
Lord Howard of Lympne | SERGC c24 (Link to this contribution) I recall the Minister saying that he was bursting to answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the...
Phyllis Starkey | SERGC c22 (Link to this contribution) May I take the Minister back to what he was saying about support for businesses? The feedback that I...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c23 (Link to this contribution) We got the schemes off in record time, and 14,000 businesses have benefited from the business health...
Phyllis Starkey | SERGC c30 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman-
Lord Howard of Lympne | SERGC c31 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a telling and cogent point, and I agree with him. The credit insurance scheme w...
Lord Redwood | SERGC c25 (Link to this contribution) On the SEEDA budget, we read on page 127 of the report that there was a 5 per cent. cut followed by ...
Chair of South East Regional Grand Committee | SERGC c27 (Link to this contribution) Before I call the next speaker, let me say that I hope to call Mr. Howard and Sandra Gidley as the s...
Jonathan Shaw | SERGC c20 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the matter of identifying the growth sectors of th...
Notes
First meeting of the South East Regional Grand Committee held at Reading Town Hall on 14 September 2009.
Subjects
Economic situation Economic growth Regional planning and development South East
Link
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