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Debate between Lord Swire and Adam Holloway
Wednesday 6th July 2011

(12 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Swire Portrait Mr Swire
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We all want to hear the hon. Gentleman—I hope others heard him better than I did. The little that I heard was about cross-border co-operation. I can assure him that we have had some recent successes in Northern Ireland, as he will have seen from the newspapers. We work extremely closely with the authorities in the Republic. This is an issue that affects us all. It is a despicable thing, and I draw the attention of all Members to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s report “Forced labour in Northern Ireland”, which has recently come out and bears reading.

Adam Holloway Portrait Mr Adam Holloway (Gravesham) (Con)
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11. What recent assessment he has made of the Northern Ireland economy.