Oral Answers to Questions

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston Excerpts

Tuesday 19th November 2013 Commons Chamber

[Greg Clark]

My hon. Friend is right, and he has been a formidable champion for the proposed city deal. All the members of the LEP and the local authorities, including across the Tamar in Cornwall, came to make an impressive pitch on 31 October, and my hon. Friend has been to see me. It is an exciting proposal that builds on the strengths that we know exist in Plymouth and the whole of the south-west peninsula to serve a globally growing sector of marine engineering. I certainly wish it well, and I hope that we will have good news before very long.

[Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston) (Lab)]

rose—

[Mr Speaker]

The terms are a bit too narrow to admit of Birmingham, Edgbaston on this occasion.

[Ms Stuart]

Are you sure?

[Mr Speaker]

I am sure, yes. We can always try to catch the hon. Lady later. There is a bit of a distance between Devon and Cornwall and Birmingham, Edgbaston.