Oral Answers to Questions

Christopher Pincher Excerpts

Wednesday 19th March 2014 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

What we said we would do was cut the deficit, and we have cut the deficit. We said we would get Britain back to work, and we are getting Britain back to work. We said we wanted a private sector-led recovery; we have got a private sector-led recovery. The hon. Lady asks what went wrong. I can give it to her in one word: Labour.

[Christopher Pincher (Tamworth) (Con)]

Q9. This week, BMW announced that it is coming to Tamworth and bringing with it 100 skilled new jobs. That is on top of the hundreds of new jobs that are already in the pipeline. When my right hon. Friend is next in the midlands, which is the manufacturing heart of our country, will he drop into Tamworth and commend our local enterprise partnership and Tamworth borough council for helping to deliver our long-term economic plan and make Tamworth the place in the midlands to do business?

Oral Answers to Questions

Christopher Pincher Excerpts

Wednesday 27th October 2010 Commons Chamber

[The Prime Minister]

We all had the chance to read about it in The Times this morning—the advice to the Leader of the Opposition:

“It’s important to have a cheer line that goes down well in the chamber.”

You have to have something that

“can be clipped easily by the broadcasters”,

and:

“It is important to get to your feet looking as if you are seizing on something new.”

The right hon. Gentleman has a plan for Prime Minister’s questions, but he has no plan for the economy, no plan for the debt and no plan for the mess Labour made—absolutely nothing worth while to say. That is it.

[Christopher Pincher (Tamworth) (Con)]

Will the Prime Minister join me in congratulating Ocado on creating 2,000 much-needed new jobs on the edge of Tamworth? While he is at it, will he congratulate the chief executive, Tim Steiner, on making it clear that he supports the difficult decisions that the Government are making to fix our finances and promote growth—decisions that the Labour party flunked?

[The Prime Minister]

My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Business leaders in Britain who are going to create the jobs that will employ thousands of people in our country support what the Government are doing and they want us to follow it through. I am happy to congratulate the person running Ocado, not least because I am one of its customers.