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Trade and Investment for Growth White Paper

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Parliamentary proceeding

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523 c328-40 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

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House of Commons chamber

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Trade and investment for growth white paper.
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Command papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Vincent Cable | 523 c334 (Link to this contribution) We want to help small businesses, but we intend to do so in a more cost-effective way, and in a more...

Margot James | 523 c334 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on extending the remit of the Export Credits Guarantee Departm...

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Pat McFadden | 523 c334 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House will welcome measures to help small and medium-sized businesses to ex...

Nadhim Zahawi | 523 c334 (Link to this contribution) May I thank my right hon. Friend, on behalf of small and medium-sized enterprises in Stratford-on-Av...

Speaker | 523 c333 (Link to this contribution) Can we have very short questions? There are many Members who wish to contribute, and I want to try t...

Vincent Cable | 523 c333-4 (Link to this contribution) As far as the single market is concerned, I meet Mr Barnier regularly, and there is now a real momen...

Vincent Cable | 523 c333 (Link to this contribution) I would not completely deprecate efforts to promote the aerospace industry—I am doing the same—but m...

Adrian Bailey | 523 c333 (Link to this contribution) As Chair of the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, I wish to make it clear that previous rep...

Catherine McKinnell | 523 c335 (Link to this contribution) One way to make our businesses, both large and small, more internationally competitive is to ensure ...

Vincent Cable | 523 c335-6 (Link to this contribution) As it happens, I launched apprenticeship week on Monday, and visited several parts of the country to...

Lord Harrington of Watford | 523 c336 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Secretary of State for today's statement on the White Paper. Last week I visited a com...

Vincent Cable | 523 c335 (Link to this contribution) I did not totally follow the hon. Gentleman's point about the statistics. Just to go over what the m...

Stephen Mosley | 523 c335 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State's statement was strong on specific measures for encouraging trade and exports...

Vincent Cable | 523 c335 (Link to this contribution) It is right to say that inward investment is enormously important. We start from a position of stren...

Vincent Cable | 523 c335 (Link to this contribution) I accept the general argument. We accept that the ECGD is an agency of Government that needs reform....

Jonathan Edwards | 523 c335 (Link to this contribution) The latest figures from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs indicate that Welsh exports fell by 6.3% i...

Vincent Cable | 523 c328-9 (Link to this contribution) Statement. Today I turn to one of the main building blocks of economic recovery—achieving growth thr...

Vincent Cable | 523 c331-2 (Link to this contribution) First, may I respond to the right hon. Gentleman's positive comments? He is right that, compared wit...

John Denham | 523 c329-31 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for sending me a copy of the White Paper earlier today and for notice...

Vincent Cable | 523 c332 (Link to this contribution) The business people whom I meet—and I meet a great many—frequently make a positive assessment of the...

Vincent Cable | 523 c333 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right to say that trade is crucial in her part of the country, and I have had discu...

Baroness Burt of Solihull | 523 c333 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome this statement, particularly the measures for SMEs. The previous Government were ve...

Vincent Cable | 523 c339-40 (Link to this contribution) I gave evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee about 10 days ago on the timing of the green in...

Neil Carmichael | 523 c340 (Link to this contribution) I certainly welcome this statement, but I would like to probe the Secretary of State on the question...

Vincent Cable | 523 c340 (Link to this contribution) I continue to hear strong representations about the value of capital allowances from, among others, ...

Tristram Hunt | 523 c340 (Link to this contribution) In Stoke-on-Trent we welcome the emphasis on small and medium-sized enterprises and manufacturing ex...

Vincent Cable | 523 c339 (Link to this contribution) Yes, indeed, and that is the case. UKTI will continue to delegate people to work in the regional are...

Baroness Berger | 523 c339 (Link to this contribution) We have just heard that the Secretary of State supports efforts to remove barriers to trade, particu...

Vincent Cable | 523 c340 (Link to this contribution) As many people on this side of the House who have run small businesses will know, the problem with B...

Vincent Cable | 523 c336 (Link to this contribution) I hear many stories of that kind; indeed, I have small businesses in my constituency that are in exa...

Vincent Cable | 523 c336 (Link to this contribution) My colleague the Trade Minister, Lord Green, was in Northern Ireland only a few days ago, meeting Bo...

Alasdair McDonnell | 523 c336 (Link to this contribution) Is the Secretary of State aware that SMEs and exports are the lifeblood of the Northern Ireland econ...

Marcus Jones | 523 c336 (Link to this contribution) There are many SMEs, particularly manufacturers, in my constituency that are capable of taking on th...

Denis MacShane | 523 c337 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State share my concern—and, I am sure, that of the right hon. Member for Sheff...

Vincent Cable | 523 c337 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly talking to my colleagues in the Home Office and making exactly the case that the righ...

Julian Smith | 523 c337 (Link to this contribution) In this transition year between regional development agencies and local enterprise partnerships, wil...

Vincent Cable | 523 c337 (Link to this contribution) Yes; my hon. Friend has raised the wider point about ensuring that the LEPs are as effective as poss...

Mark Lazarowicz | 523 c337 (Link to this contribution) Before the statement, I attended an event here in the Commons organised by Heriot-Watt university to...

Elizabeth Truss | 523 c338 (Link to this contribution) Food and farming is now the UK's largest manufacturing sector, and enterprising companies such as He...

Vincent Cable | 523 c337 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes the same point as his colleague the right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr Mac...

Rob Wilson | 523 c338 (Link to this contribution) May I add my welcome for the focus on SMEs? The Secretary of State is making absolutely the right ju...

Vincent Cable | 523 c338 (Link to this contribution) I do not recognise the hon. Gentleman's numbers. I get a great deal of feedback, particularly from s...

Andrew Love | 523 c338 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State confirm press reports earlier this week that his flagship policy of a na...

Vincent Cable | 523 c338 (Link to this contribution) My colleague is right to emphasise the importance of that industry. Food and drink represents more t...

Vincent Cable | 523 c339 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the hon. Gentleman has studied the figures carefully. If he does, he will see th...

James Morris | 523 c339 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's statement. Does he agree that it is important for UKTI to develop...

Vincent Cable | 523 c338 (Link to this contribution) My diary would be seriously oversubscribed if I offered to visit all the companies that have been me...

William Bain | 523 c338-9 (Link to this contribution) On a day when the Office for National Statistics has revealed that the UK's trade deficit widened in...

Brian Binley | 523 c332 (Link to this contribution) Now that the Secretary of State has been in situ for some time, does he recognise—as we on the Busin...

Joan Walley | 523 c333 (Link to this contribution) Nothing is more important than creating jobs, in the part of north Staffordshire that I represent. B...

Vincent Cable | 523 c336 (Link to this contribution) My colleague the Minister of State, Lord Green, is developing a support package for SMEs that involv...

Vincent Cable | 523 c334 (Link to this contribution) As far as the ECGD is concerned, one of the things that we discovered when we investigated this matt...

Subjects

Bilateral aid Investment Economic growth Small businesses Trade Trade agreements Foreign investment in UK Trade promotion

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