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Oral Answers to Questions

Lord Cryer Excerpts
Thursday 21st March 2013

(11 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Vince Cable Portrait Vince Cable
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right that the issue in the industrial strategy is promoting not simply the prime contractors but the supply chains. These have been badly hollowed out in recent years, but there is quite a lot of evidence of re-shoring, and we want to support that with the advanced manufacturing supply chain initiative.

Lord Cryer Portrait John Cryer (Leyton and Wanstead) (Lab)
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The Secretary of State has just cut by half the consultation period for large-scale redundancies. Does he imagine in his wildest dreams—I imagine he has some pretty wild ones—that this will do anything to foster economic confidence?