Growth Deals: North of Tyne and Borderlands

Debate between Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth and Viscount Ridley

Tuesday 17th April 2018 Lords Chamber

[Viscount Ridley (Con)]

My Lords, is my noble friend aware that Northumberland is one of the few counties without a university in it and that the Conservative-controlled county council has ambitions to put that right? Does he think that that should be encouraged?

[Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth]

My Lords, I had not given particular thought to that question until the noble Viscount addressed it to me. Of course, there are two terribly good universities in Newcastle, as we know, but I am pleased to hear about the consideration being given to a university in Northumberland.