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Christian Matheson Excerpts
Monday 4th March 2019

(5 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I am giving the hon. Gentleman ideas, I know.

Christian Matheson Portrait Christian Matheson (City of Chester) (Lab)
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T8. Cheshire and Warrington were promised a decision on their devolution growth deal by November 2017. Why the delay? When are we going to get a decision?

Jake Berry Portrait Jake Berry
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I met the leader of the Cheshire and Warrington local enterprise partnership only last week, and we discussed progress on its growth deal. We remain committed to working with it to see when progress can be made, but it is absolutely vital that the leaders of the three unitary authorities and all the Members of Parliament affected renew their commitment to the deal if we are to make progress.