Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Barry Sheerman Excerpts
Tuesday 19th January 2016

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Of course, as colleagues know, the fact that a question has been asked does not stop others asking the same question. Repetition is not a novel phenomenon in the House of Commons.

Barry Sheerman Portrait Mr Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield) (Lab/Co-op)
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Will the Chancellor ponder the fact that we still have not tackled productivity? May I guide him and ask him and his Department to look at the way in which we further invest in manufacturing skills? Surely he will agree that what we want in this country are high skilled, high paid jobs, which are to be found in manufacturing.