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Lord Bellingham Excerpts
Monday 11th July 2016

(8 years, 3 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Shailesh Vara Portrait Mr Vara
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If he had listened to the questions, he would have found that I said a £1.1 billion concession was made in 2011.

Lord Bellingham Portrait Sir Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk) (Con)
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13. What recent assessment he has made of job creation and employment trends in East Anglia; and if he will make a statement.

Justin Tomlinson Portrait The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People (Justin Tomlinson)
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In the east of England, the number of people in employment has increased by nearly 300,000 since 2010, and the employment rate is close to the highest on record.

Lord Bellingham Portrait Sir Henry Bellingham
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Is the Minister aware that in my constituency unemployment has come down from 4.3% in 2010 to 1.5% last month, and that only last Friday Mars Food announced a very welcome £23 million investment in its King’s Lynn plant, thus creating more well paid, skilled jobs? Does he agree that in this post-Brexit climate we should all be doing what we can to flag up such successes?

Justin Tomlinson Portrait Justin Tomlinson
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That is yet another sign of just how fundamentally strong our economy is, which is helping us to deliver record numbers of people in employment.