Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Ruth Cadbury and Claire Perry

Tuesday 7th November 2017 Commons Chamber

[The Minister for Climate Change and Industry (Claire Perry)]

I commend my hon. Friend and her local enterprise partnership for their work. We look forward to seeing that report and to having productive conversations. We do not want any barriers that impede economic growth in her constituency and region.

[Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab)]

T6. Net present value is the economic measurement generally held to provide the most robust assessment of all the costs and benefits of any proposed major infrastructure project. Would the Government ever support a major infrastructure project that, at its inception, was calculated to have a negative net economic benefit?