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Building Britain's Future

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Type

Grand Committee proceedings (HC)

Reference

EMRGC c18-44 

Session

2008-09

Department

Minister for the East Midlands

Committee

East Midlands Regional Grand Committee

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons Grand Committees

Related items

Building Britain's future.
Monday, 29 June 2009
Command papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Judy Mallaber | EMRGC c42 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Lord Mann | EMRGC c27 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree when I note with great concern the joy that will have echoed around the ot...

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Judy Mallaber | EMRGC c23 (Link to this contribution) Can I assume that the hon. Gentleman, in his desire to sweep away all this regional bureaucracy, wou...

Alan Duncan | EMRGC c23 (Link to this contribution) No, the hon. Lady cannot assume that. The problem with regional policy is that development agencies,...

Edward Leigh | EMRGC c18 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to interrupt that paean of praise for what is going on, but one thing that the Minister h...

Alan Duncan | EMRGC c24-6 (Link to this contribution) I am very open-minded about the right hon. Lady’s point about the wisdom and need to prepare for the...

Alan Duncan | EMRGC c22 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for what he has said this afternoon, although I remain unconvinced that the exe...

Paddy Tipping | EMRGC c23 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that, in fact, EMDA's administrative and business costs have been red...

Phil Hope | EMRGC c18-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman must have been thinking about my next point about the region, namely our success ...

Liz Blackman | EMRGC c22 (Link to this contribution) This is a perfect opportunity to pitch in and flag up the fact that, for 12 years, I have been campa...

Chair of East Midlands Regional Grand Committee | EMRGC c26 (Link to this contribution) I call the Chairman of the East Midlands Regional Committee, Mr. Paddy Tipping.

Mark Simmonds | EMRGC c42 (Link to this contribution) I will begin by saying, as an east midlands man who was born and educated in Bassetlaw, that Bassetl...

Mark Simmonds | EMRGC c42-3 (Link to this contribution) I will not because I have only a few minutes left. The Minister should look at the latest OECD repo...

Judy Mallaber | EMRGC c37-9 (Link to this contribution) I want to follow the remarks made by my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, South, because we are...

Chair of East Midlands Regional Grand Committee | EMRGC c37 (Link to this contribution) Order. I intend to call the Minister to wind up the debate no later than 25 minutes past 4, so if th...

Paul Robert Holmes | EMRGC c32-3 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. As I have said, where there are good business cases, the banks should do that. I could s...

Lord Mann | EMRGC c34 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Did he say four units? The reason why Chesterfield has go...

Judy Mallaber | EMRGC c28 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend join me in asking the Minister to support Derbyshire police force in seeking rec...

Paddy Tipping | EMRGC c27-8 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we stick up for local people and for local clubs, to bring investment here loca...

Edward Leigh | EMRGC c22 (Link to this contribution) Can I take it therefore that, when we get into power, as I hope we will next May, we will sweep away...

Alan Duncan | EMRGC c23-4 (Link to this contribution) Those are certainly not the figures that I have, but I am happy to debate that with the hon. Gentlem...

Phil Hope | EMRGC c20 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to emphasise the point of whether we can be flexible in responding to the ne...

Baroness Beckett | EMRGC c21 (Link to this contribution) Reference was made during Question Time to the new investment that the Government have just announce...

Phil Hope | EMRGC c43-4 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the Committee, I thank my hon. Friend the Member for North-West Leicestershire for...

Lord Mann | EMRGC c39-40 (Link to this contribution) In my meagre ration of time, let me first agree with the hon. Member for Rutland and Melton that we ...

Chair of East Midlands Regional Grand Committee | EMRGC c35 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have no power to impose a time limit on speeches, but brief contributions will enable me to...

Alan Simpson | EMRGC c31-2 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman accept that for those who have reservations about the extent to which the Go...

Paul Robert Holmes | EMRGC c34-5 (Link to this contribution) There are two things to say about that; one is that it brings me on to my next point; but it is also...

Paul Robert Holmes | EMRGC c31 (Link to this contribution) I partly agree with that intervention. I would certainly not endorse the longest suicide note in his...

Chair of East Midlands Regional Grand Committee | EMRGC c28 (Link to this contribution) Order. I refer the hon. Lady to the motion, especially the words: "how the region will make the mos...

Nick Palmer | EMRGC c26 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, and we are all delighted to see him back in action. We should give ...

Paddy Tipping | EMRGC c26 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Taylor. The Minister reminded us that Parliament met here in 1356. May I remind him o...

Phil Hope | EMRGC c17-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the matter of Building Britain’s Future: how the r...

Phil Hope | EMRGC c22 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a great champion of the scheme in her constituency. I know from personal experienc...

Alan Duncan | EMRGC c22 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly our policy to pass power back down wherever possible to county councils, or to a com...

Nick Palmer | EMRGC c19-20 (Link to this contribution) A number of my constituents have said that they are concerned about the sharp cut-off points for the...

Phil Hope | EMRGC c21-2 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. We are endeavouring through the way in which the new homes are procur...

Baroness Beckett | EMRGC c24 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a quick point about the hon. Gentleman’s observations, not least because I have a viv...

Mark Todd | EMRGC c41 (Link to this contribution) That was an admirable tour de force. In the very limited time that I have, I want to focus on just t...

Alan Simpson | EMRGC c35-7 (Link to this contribution) Is the region well placed to deal with an economic upturn? The answer is no. In that sense—and only ...

Nick Palmer | EMRGC c31 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his endorsement of Labour’s 1983 manifesto. It is unpopular ...

Paddy Tipping | EMRGC c28-9 (Link to this contribution) Of course, having low crime and having an adequately-resourced police force brings in investment, an...

Paul Robert Holmes | EMRGC c29-31 (Link to this contribution) I share some of the doubts expressed by the Conservative Front Bench spokesman about the value of th...

Paddy Tipping | EMRGC c26-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his good wishes. I am not firing on all cylinders at the moment, but I am...

Notes

First meeting of the East Midlands Regional Grand Committee held at Nottingham Town Hall on 9 September 2009.

Subjects

Economic situation East Midlands Regional planning and development Economic recession

Link

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