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Local Growth White Paper

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

517 c480-96 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Local growth: realising every place's potential.
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Command papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

John Denham | 517 c482-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement, and of course I look forward to reading the White ...

Sarah Newton | 517 c487-8 (Link to this contribution) I want warmly to congratulate the team of Ministers on the presentation of these very positive propo...

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Vincent Cable | 517 c496 (Link to this contribution) We will look at the quality of the proposals. An LEP is going forward for Lincolnshire, and it is a ...

Vincent Cable | 517 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman highlights briefly and eloquently why the RDA structure just did not work. As I r...

Vincent Cable | 517 c494 (Link to this contribution) They will gain access if they are able to bring forward quickly a proposal that meets the key requir...

Iain Stewart | 517 c494 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the go-ahead for the south-east midlands LEP. Does my right hon. Friend agree that ...

Austin Mitchell | 517 c496 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State's words about localism will ring rather hollow on Humberside, where we have j...

Vincent Cable | 517 c496 (Link to this contribution) The Government are not providing the LEPs with a budget, but that is not to say that the partners, w...

Emma Reynolds | 517 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) Advantage West Midlands invested significantly in the i54 business site on the edge of my constituen...

Pauline Latham | 517 c490 (Link to this contribution) In his letter to me of 10 September, the Secretary of State said that he would bear in mind a visit ...

Adrian Bailey | 517 c486 (Link to this contribution) I endorse the comment made by my fellow black country MP, the hon. Member for Stourbridge (Margot Ja...

Nicholas Brown | 517 c487 (Link to this contribution) What the Secretary of State has announced today is very wrong. One NorthEast did a good job for the ...

Vincent Cable | 517 c491 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right: we need to take maximum advantage of the regional funding available fro...

Andrew Stephenson | 517 c491 (Link to this contribution) Businesses in Pendle and I are keen that the Pennine Lancashire bid, for which we have recently subm...

Vincent Cable | 517 c491 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can give that assurance. My colleague in the other place, Lord Greaves, has been bending my e...

Duncan Hames | 517 c489 (Link to this contribution) Businesses and business groups are more interested in the work and agenda of local enterprise partne...

Vincent Cable | 517 c490 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. Norfolk is not on the first list. We are hoping it will be successful. ...

Vincent Cable | 517 c489 (Link to this contribution) That was one of the dangers to which we were alerted. For example, when bids were simply a vehicle f...

Rosie Cooper | 517 c489 (Link to this contribution) The north-west feels that it was badly misled by the Government on the future of the Northwest Regio...

Vincent Cable | 517 c489-90 (Link to this contribution) Several of the best bids came from the north-west, including Greater Manchester and Liverpool city r...

Brandon Lewis | 517 c490 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Department. I know that businesses in Norfolk that have been working to put toget...

Vincent Cable | 517 c488 (Link to this contribution) My colleague is absolutely right that the contribution of the creative industries sector has been co...

Speaker | 517 c487 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I suggest very short questions and quick answers? That would be very helpful.

Speaker | 517 c486 (Link to this contribution) Order. A great many hon. and right hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye, but time is limited and...

Clive Betts | 517 c495 (Link to this contribution) I have real concerns about the Secretary of State's over-simplistic comments on housing and planning...

Vincent Cable | 517 c495 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that I have, because that is indeed exactly what we are considering, albeit with appropria...

Andrew Love | 517 c495 (Link to this contribution) I regret, but perhaps more importantly I suspect that the Secretary of State will come to regret, th...

Richard Burden | 517 c496 (Link to this contribution) In his opening remarks, the Secretary of State said that the thing that local enterprise partnership...

Vincent Cable | 517 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we will. In fact, one of the most imaginative and interesting LEPs is what we call the coast-to...

Julian Smith | 517 c493 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend pay tribute to Barry Dodd and those behind the Yorkshire Enterprise Partne...

Vincent Cable | 517 c493-4 (Link to this contribution) It is, and it also addresses the issue that Opposition Members have raised: the assumption that only...

Helen Goodman | 517 c493 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has railed against centralisation this lunchtime, but the truth is that we in...

Vincent Cable | 517 c493 (Link to this contribution) I thought that there was a consensus in the north-east, but it manifested itself in a whole series o...

Vincent Cable | 517 c493 (Link to this contribution) As I think I told one of the hon. Gentleman's colleagues earlier, there was a problem with the black...

Nicholas Dakin | 517 c494 (Link to this contribution) How will areas such as the Humber, which has not been awarded an LEP, gain access to regional growth...

Vincent Cable | 517 c494 (Link to this contribution) The answer is yes. We have to respect devolved powers in Wales, but the simple answer is yes: there ...

Stephen Mosley | 517 c494 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome today's announcement of a Cheshire and Warrington LEP and the proposals in the White P...

Vincent Cable | 517 c494 (Link to this contribution) Obviously I regret any redundancies that result from either that decision or others. Clearly, none o...

Grahame Morris | 517 c494 (Link to this contribution) Business Link, which is located on the Spectrum industrial park in my constituency, recently announc...

Anne Marie Morris | 517 c492 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the proposals set out this morning. I am delighted. They will make a real differenc...

Vincent Cable | 517 c492 (Link to this contribution) That is another question along the lines of the original question from my right hon. Friend the Memb...

Baroness Berger | 517 c492 (Link to this contribution) Despite all the coalition's talk of localism, I am concerned to learn today that assets currently ow...

Vincent Cable | 517 c492 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give guarantees on the treatment of specific assets. As I said, they will be managed carefu...

Bob Blackman | 517 c492 (Link to this contribution) The announcements made this morning will be warmly welcomed by all progressive local authorities acr...

Vincent Cable | 517 c492 (Link to this contribution) It is revealing, in a way, that half an hour into questions that is the first question we have had a...

Ben Bradshaw | 517 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) Is not the CBI right to describe the whole process as a shambles? That is certainly what it has been...

Vincent Cable | 517 c493 (Link to this contribution) My Department has been talking to the CBI, which is pleased with the outcome, as it made clear. On p...

James Morris | 517 c493 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's statement, particularly the emphasis on private sector jobs and s...

Tom Blenkinsop | 517 c490-1 (Link to this contribution) At present, £1.9 billion of England's European regional development fund pot is still there to be sp...

Vincent Cable | 517 c490 (Link to this contribution) My colleague has been assiduous in pursuing me about that, and she is right to do so. That is what g...

Valerie Vaz | 517 c491 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State state his intentions for the highly skilled and independent Planning Ins...

Vincent Cable | 517 c491 (Link to this contribution) The development of the planning system and what that means for policy and operationally will be set ...

Jeremy Lefroy | 517 c491 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement by my right hon. Friend and also the fact that the LEP for Stoke and Staffor...

Vincent Cable | 517 c491 (Link to this contribution) The Manufacturing Advisory Service provides one of the best industrial support activities, and we in...

Vincent Cable | 517 c489 (Link to this contribution) I would certainly be interested in finding out more about the science and innovation centre. It migh...

Jack Dromey | 517 c490 (Link to this contribution) Advantage West Midlands was the most successful regional development agency, generating £8.14 in the...

Vincent Cable | 517 c490 (Link to this contribution) I do not share the hon. Gentleman's concern, because several of the strongest bids were from the wes...

Vincent Cable | 517 c488 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it is designed to do exactly that. I can confirm that Cornwall and Isles of Scilly is one of th...

Richard Fuller | 517 c489 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware of the enthusiasm in Bedfordshire for the proposed south-east mid...

Vincent Cable | 517 c489 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes exactly the right point. This was a good example of cross-party working and it ...

Lord Walney | 517 c488 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Secretary of State was too frit to face concerned students today, I guess we should b...

Vincent Cable | 517 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) I think I answered that in my statement. In areas that really matter to business, such as the availa...

Lord Foster of Bath | 517 c488 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Secretary of State for allowing the west of England LEP to go ahead and advise him t...

Angela C Smith | 517 c488 (Link to this contribution) Given that the £80 million loan to Sheffield Forgemasters was all about providing strategic investme...

Vincent Cable | 517 c488 (Link to this contribution) We have discussed this extensively in the House and in the Select Committee, and we have explained t...

Louise Ellman | 517 c489 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State explain how these arrangements could replace the vital work done by the ...

Vincent Cable | 517 c487 (Link to this contribution) The process is necessarily complex and we are trying to balance a series of considerations—making or...

Vincent Cable | 517 c486-7 (Link to this contribution) In terms of the process for dealing with the LEPs, we had what my colleagues call a traffic light sy...

Vincent Cable | 517 c486 (Link to this contribution) In terms of private sector participation, the LEPs will have boards that are split 50:50 between bus...

Margot James | 517 c486 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on bringing the private sector into the d...

Vincent Cable | 517 c487 (Link to this contribution) As far as the north-east—in particular the Northumberland and Tyneside area—is concerned, we were di...

Lord Beith | 517 c487 (Link to this contribution) Why have Ministers not yet agreed a local economic partnership to cover Northumberland and Tyneside?...

Vincent Cable | 517 c484-5 (Link to this contribution) Many of the specific questions about policy, the role of the local enterprise partnerships, the numb...

Vincent Cable | 517 c480-2 (Link to this contribution) STATEMENT This Government's economic ambition is to build a more balanced economy, driven by private...

Vincent Cable | 517 c492 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that I or the Ministers of State in both Departments would be happy to talk about that, bu...

Subjects

Employment Investment Economic growth Small businesses Regional planning and development Venture capital Regeneration UK Trade and Investment Local enterprise partnerships

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