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Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Thursday, 3 September 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Knight of Weymouth. The answering member was Geoffrey Clifton-Brown.

Economic Downturn (Unemployment)

South West Regional Grand Committee debate to consider the matter of the response to the economic downturn: tackling unemployment. (Committee sitting in Exeter). Question negatived on division (6 to 12).

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Type
Grand Committee proceedings (HC)
Reference
SWRGC c19-48 
Session
2008-09
Department
Minister for the South West
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons Grand Committees
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Proceeding contributions
James Gray | SWRGC c40 (Link to this contribution) I entirely apologise for not having read the report. I will make sure that I read it with great care...
Alison Seabeck | SWRGC c40 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but we are very short of time.
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Linda Gilroy | SWRGC c46 (Link to this contribution) I cannot resist having the opportunity of a DEFRA Minister to say will he please thank the Under-Sec...
Dan Norris | SWRGC c45 (Link to this contribution) May I thank hon. Members for a highly informative and thought-provoking debate? Interesting things h...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c32-3 (Link to this contribution) I shall shortly be making a declaration in the Register of Members’ Interests. When my farm actually...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c28-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for that ruling, Mr. Key. I was responding to the intervention by my hon. Friend the Membe...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c29 (Link to this contribution) I issue a challenge to the regional Minister as a result of what he has just said. Within one month ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c29 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned that the hon. Gentleman is putting forward the notion that the Committee is a talking...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c27 (Link to this contribution) As I recall, some of the changes that we have made might make that possible. In essence, we want peo...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c27 (Link to this contribution) I am always happy to give way, but I need to make some progress so that others have a chance to spea...
David Heath | SWRGC c23 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased to hear that the Minister is here to unblock things. He can start by unblocking th...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c22 (Link to this contribution) We are now seeing a good take-up of the scheme in the region, a matter that I was talking about to o...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c33 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that it will, unfortunately, be available to him wherever he is.
Richard Younger-Ross | SWRGC c36 (Link to this contribution) The previous Minister for the South West, the right hon. Member for Exeter, was rather blasé about t...
Linda Gilroy | SWRGC c33 (Link to this contribution) In the hon. Gentleman’s capacity as international trade spokesperson, will he share with the Committ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c33 (Link to this contribution) I will, for the last time, since the hon. Lady has been so gracious.
Gary Streeter | SWRGC c44 (Link to this contribution) I want to make four or five quick points. The first is about the legitimacy and accountability of th...
Alison Seabeck | SWRGC c40-2 (Link to this contribution) That subject would have been a distraction to my Committee, as it is now. If indeed we are looking a...
Anne Snelgrove | SWRGC c47 (Link to this contribution) Although badgers are important, one aspect that the debate has not concentrated on is youth unemploy...
Gary Streeter | SWRGC c44-5 (Link to this contribution) Not very interesting, but we sat politely. However, the most significant issue west of Exeter, and c...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c19 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the matter of the response to the economic downturn...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c19-20 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier in response to the hon. Member for Cotswold (Mr. Clifton-Brown), the compelling re...
Adrian Sanders | SWRGC c32 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. Does he agree that the appropriate place for the...
Richard Younger-Ross | SWRGC c31 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of employment figures and the point that the hon. Gentleman was making about redundan...
Anthony Steen | SWRGC c33 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will not be here to see the register.
Steve Webb | SWRGC c30 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for mentioning that important employer that we share in both our...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c28 (Link to this contribution) May I pay tribute to you, Mr. Key, for chairing the Committee so excellently? May I also pay tribute...
Laurence Robertson | SWRGC c28 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Key. I am sorry to interrupt my hon. Friend, but are we not inquorate at th...
Anne Snelgrove | SWRGC c23 (Link to this contribution) It is incumbent on Members of Parliament to take an active role with the RDA and the Government offi...
James Gray | SWRGC c24-5 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that the economic circumstances that we have at the moment are a good time for the Lab...
David Laws | SWRGC c25 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is talking about some of the schemes that the Government have introduced to give suppor...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c26 (Link to this contribution) The measure of success is how good a customer service Jobcentre Plus is offering. In addition to the...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c23 (Link to this contribution) I shall have to get back to the hon. Gentleman on the specifics of what might be happening in Somert...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c21 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I agree. When I look at the market town communities of Dorset, Wiltshire, Glouces...
Adrian Sanders | SWRGC c34-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank Devon county council for making its facilities available to us today. I also thank the Minis...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c34 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend pre-empts what I am about to say. I am worried by the Government’s introduction of mo...
Linda Gilroy | SWRGC c33 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Adrian Sanders | SWRGC c36 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. It is always difficult for a Minister to look at currency fluctua...
Linda Gilroy | SWRGC c36 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that some lessons have been learned? For instance, figures for Devon s...
Alison Seabeck | SWRGC c40 (Link to this contribution) The role of the Select Committee, as the hon. Gentleman with his long experience in Parliament will ...
Linda Gilroy | SWRGC c43 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Key. Did the Chairman or any person in a position to say so rece...
David Heath | SWRGC c42 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Key. These proceedings are extremely unsatisfactory, in that we now have le...
Dan Norris | SWRGC c46-7 (Link to this contribution) I recognise that my hon. Friend has worked closely with Liberal Democrat colleagues on the issue. It...
Anthony Steen | SWRGC c47 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister going to say something about badgers?
Dan Norris | SWRGC c46 (Link to this contribution) I beg your pardon, Mr. Key. I apologise for that and I hope that people can now hear me more clearly...
Dan Norris | SWRGC c47-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. The Government and I of course share her concern about...
James Gray | SWRGC c19 (Link to this contribution) As the Minister will be aware, I was special adviser to my right hon. Friend when he took that decis...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c20 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman even though I fear that we are going to end up having a debat...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c32 (Link to this contribution) Where tourism sits is clearly important, but who co-ordinates it on behalf of the Government is even...
Gary Streeter | SWRGC c29 (Link to this contribution) To answer the Minister’s question directly, the difference is that when we meet in the House of Comm...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c30-1 (Link to this contribution) Constituencies such as that of the hon. Member for Northavon and my constituency next door, have tra...
David Heath | SWRGC c26 (Link to this contribution) As someone with a family member who just graduated in the creative industries and who is desperately...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c28 (Link to this contribution) As always, my hon. Friend and I think alike, although I am not quite sure whether it is a case of gr...
Robert Walter | SWRGC c26 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is talking about help for the unemployed. In my constituency over the last year, unempl...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c24 (Link to this contribution) I must make more progress, because I am aware that others will want to speak. We have worked hard to...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c21-2 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has made great play this morning of the fact that he chairs the economic task force, bu...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c22-3 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman comes towards his retirement, I guess that he is allowed to say what a wonderf...
Anthony Steen | SWRGC c22 (Link to this contribution) I noticed the Government’s response to the third report of the Select Committee was that regional Mi...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c33 (Link to this contribution) On the general theme that the hon. Lady has raised, one of the big growth sectors for exports from t...
Adrian Sanders | SWRGC c36-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right, but she has chosen the wrong period to look at south-west employment trends....
Chair of South West Regional Grand Committee | SWRGC c38 (Link to this contribution) Order. I must appeal for brevity. More than 10 hon. Members wish to catch my eye, and there are 32 m...
Alison Seabeck | SWRGC c38-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the Chair, Mr. Key. It was the view of the Select Committee that we should, as our ...
Chair of South West Regional Grand Committee | SWRGC c42 (Link to this contribution) No, there is not, in short. We are restricted entirely by the motion passed by the House of Commons;...
Chair of South West Regional Grand Committee | SWRGC c43 (Link to this contribution) With respect, that is not a point of order for the Chair.
Andrew George | SWRGC c43-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Key. In view of the time, I will try to run through the issues that I want to mention...
Geoffrey Cox | SWRGC c40 (Link to this contribution) Did the hon. Lady, in the course of conducting her Select Committee scrutiny, receive any representa...
Dan Norris | SWRGC c47 (Link to this contribution) I had not planned to do so but am happy to. Bovine TB is clearly a serious issue, and I represent a ...
Chair of South West Regional Grand Committee | SWRGC c45 (Link to this contribution) Order. Will the Minister kindly speak to one or other of the microphones? Technically, it is causing...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c20 (Link to this contribution) My experience in elected office and public life has suggested that whenever we have debates about bo...
Dan Rogerson | SWRGC c20 (Link to this contribution) The Minister made a couple of important points about the nature of what my hon. Friend the Member fo...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c20-1 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of other areas of the south-west wanting to be their own regions, but we have heard t...
Andrew George | SWRGC c20 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely not, but the Minister appears to hold the view that if he were to accede to a reasonable ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c31-2 (Link to this contribution) That is exactly right. Of course the Government want to ensure that we are given the glossiest pictu...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c32 (Link to this contribution) The question on TB will be far better answered by the Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c29-30 (Link to this contribution) I take my hon. Friend’s point; it is exactly right. Another point occurred to me regarding what the ...
Anthony Steen | SWRGC c28 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend as concerned as I am about the additional cost of such a regional meeting in Exete...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | SWRGC c28 (Link to this contribution) I anticipated that my hon. Friend would make the first intervention.
David Laws | SWRGC c27 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. Can the Minister clarify whether there are circumstances in which an intern with no o...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c27 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman’s daughter on graduating and securing a worthwhile qualification t...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c25-6 (Link to this contribution) There are a number of different schemes. The mortgage interest support scheme that is delivered in p...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c23 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, as ever, makes excellent points. If hon. Members, for whatever reason, decide that t...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | SWRGC c25 (Link to this contribution) I was delighted to visit Wiltshire, indeed to visit the hon. Gentleman’s constituency, to see Lackha...
Richard Younger-Ross | SWRGC c21 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for being very generous in giving way. I agree that Cornwall has similarities w...
Notes
First meeting of the South West Regional Grand Committee held at County Hall, Exeter on 3 September 2009.
Subjects
Economic situation Regional planning and development Unemployment Economic recession South West
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