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Debate on Monday, 14 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Jeremy Browne.

Emerging Economies

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of emerging economies. Motion lapsed.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
511 c681-709 
Session
2010-12
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Deposited Paper DEP2010-1351
Monday, 21 June 2010
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Lord Sharma | 511 c697-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to make my maiden speech. I start by congratula...
Jesse Norman | 511 c699-702 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for letting me catch your eye, and welcome to the Chair. I also wel...
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Laura Sandys | 511 c696-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this debate and to make my maiden ...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c685-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes another excellent point, about how we ensure that there is a global archite...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c684 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with my hon. Friend. It is notable that, in many international companies and other ...
Simon Hughes | 511 c684 (Link to this contribution) Following the intervention by the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr Wright), will the Minister join me ...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c684-5 (Link to this contribution) That is a matter that I may wish to bring to the attention of Home Office colleagues. I am sure that...
Tobias Ellwood | 511 c684 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions the importance of the movement of people with regard to China. Does he know ...
Iain Wright | 511 c685 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way; he is being most generous. Before he moves from economic power ...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c685 (Link to this contribution) I will take the hon. Gentleman's intervention, but I may be less generous afterwards.
Jeremy Browne | 511 c687-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my right hon. Friend's expertise as the Chairman of the Select Committee. It is im...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 511 c687 (Link to this contribution) To take up the point that my hon. Friend has just made, in some countries our engagement is a develo...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c687 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point that echoes one made by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Sec...
Andrew Murrison | 511 c687 (Link to this contribution) That is all very well, but what do the Government plan to do to combine Government offices abroad? I...
Andrew Murrison | 511 c683 (Link to this contribution) What attitude does the hon. Gentleman take to emerging economies in what the European Union calls it...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c683-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not want this debate to be just about aid, because the emerging economies are important in many...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c683 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman not only for his flattering comments but for his intervention. I...
Iain Wright | 511 c683 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman to his post; I think that he will make a very fine Minister. Developin...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c682-3 (Link to this contribution) An interesting evolution in the power balance in the world is taking place, with these huge emerging...
Tobias Ellwood | 511 c682 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions China and the huge steps forward that it has taken in its growing economy. I...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c682 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Huge levels of growth, by European standards, are necessary ...
Robert Smith | 511 c682 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talks about the statistics for China. It is important to realise how much of that gro...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c681-2 (Link to this contribution) I did not doubt that for one moment. I welcome this opportunity to debate the new Government's poli...
Speaker | 511 c681 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman joins a long line of Members who have said exactly the same; I will, of course, b...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c681 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of emerging economies." I am delighted to ...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c707 (Link to this contribution) I was making a broad point about 13 years of Labour failure, which is central to the debate. If we a...
Iain Wright | 511 c707 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right about ensuring that more people take foreign languages such as Mandarin ...
Tobias Ellwood | 511 c707 (Link to this contribution) I feel an intervention coming on.
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c707 (Link to this contribution) That is the whole point—that happened because of grade inflation. The results reached a high every y...
Thomas Docherty | 511 c706 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that the number of pupils passing GCSEs and A-levels reached a record...
Chris Bryant | 511 c706 (Link to this contribution) Juan Domingo Perón was more of a syndicalist, closer to Mussolini than to the socialism of the Labou...
Lord Bellingham | 511 c707-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank all hon. Members for their contributions to this excellent, albeit very short, debate. As th...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c707 (Link to this contribution) With respect, I am talking about the emerging economies, and the point about education is central to...
Speaker | 511 c707 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are grateful to the hon. Gentleman. With the leave of the House, I call the Minister, Mr H...
Tobias Ellwood | 511 c692 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely right. The hon. Gentleman talks about the importance of green technology, but I am remin...
Chris Bryant | 511 c692 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course I do—and I am looking forward to welcoming the hon. Gentleman to the Opposition Bench...
Andrew Murrison | 511 c692 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that not only has he just insulted the French, but he has also insulted ...
Chris Bryant | 511 c692-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but I think that one of the things that has changed over the past 30 or 40 years is that wherea...
Jeremy Browne | 511 c693 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way as I wish to find a point of consensus with him. ...
Chris Bryant | 511 c693 (Link to this contribution) Well, indeed. The third thing that we need to do to enhance UK growth relates to students from emer...
Tobias Ellwood | 511 c694 (Link to this contribution) The point about visas is important. Bournemouth has a number of English language schools, which attr...
Chris Bryant | 511 c694-5 (Link to this contribution) I am only asking what the Government's policy is—that is the job of the Opposition. The Labour Gover...
John Howell | 511 c702-4 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by thanking all the hon. Members who made maiden speeches tonight. I suspect that when ...
Gordon Birtwistle | 511 c704 (Link to this contribution) My concern, which the hon. Gentleman may well be able to answer, is about the fact that the emerging...
John Howell | 511 c704-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. Clearly, British industry still has a big role to play ...
Speaker | 511 c704 (Link to this contribution) Order. I gently point out to the hon. Gentleman that I do not see anything, although I think that th...
Sajid Javid | 511 c689 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that one of the reasons why Argentina had all those problems was that ...
Chris Bryant | 511 c689-90 (Link to this contribution) Nice try, but we will come a little later to the problems that I see with the Conservative-Lib Dem G...
Chris Bryant | 511 c690 (Link to this contribution) Strictly speaking, that is not statistically right. Yes, when Burberry tried to close its factory in...
Iain Wright | 511 c690-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend to the Opposition Benches, and I hope that he will apologise for the appall...
Gordon Birtwistle | 511 c690 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, over the past 13 years—and probably even over the past 25—the pr...
Chris Bryant | 511 c691 (Link to this contribution) I was about to do precisely that, so I am grateful to the old lag—
Chris Bryant | 511 c691 (Link to this contribution) I am a bit distressed that my hon. Friend has just welcomed me to the Opposition Benches, but there ...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 511 c691 (Link to this contribution) Just refer to me as the old lag. On a detailed point, the Crombie overcoat company in my constituenc...
Tobias Ellwood | 511 c692 (Link to this contribution) May I also welcome the hon. Gentleman to the Opposition Benches, and may I welcome, too, the many La...
Chris Bryant | 511 c691-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that. The Minister who does so may not be able to answer all my questions, but I h...
Chris Bryant | 511 c691 (Link to this contribution) Sorry—the honourable old lag. He is probably extremely right honourable, learned and gallant as well...
Chris Bryant | 511 c688 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is a great delight to see you in the Chair. I shall not reveal h...
Chris Bryant | 511 c688-9 (Link to this contribution) Captain Neil Primrose, who took a strong interest in emerging economies at the time, and particularl...
Speaker | 511 c688 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman's points are very interesting, but he needs to ensure that he stays in ord...
Chris Bryant | 511 c688 (Link to this contribution) No, we tend to specialise in ears. The Minister is the first Liberal in the Foreign Office for some...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c706 (Link to this contribution) May I retort that Mussolini was originally a socialist? He was a left-wing journalist. It is no acci...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 511 c706 (Link to this contribution) I have been privileged to hear maiden speeches by my hon. Friends the Member for South Thanet (Laura...
Chris Bryant | 511 c690 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way first to the newer Member, then to the old lag.
Subjects
China Languages Economic situation India Economic growth National income Trade Visas Students Russia Mexico Brazil World economy
Contains statistics
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