Growth Deals: North of Tyne and Borderlands Debate

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Growth Deals: North of Tyne and Borderlands

Viscount Ridley Excerpts
Tuesday 17th April 2018

(6 years, 8 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Viscount Ridley Portrait Viscount Ridley (Con)
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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 Portrait Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth
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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.