Businesses (North of England)
Debate between David Rutley and Stephen Mosley(10 years, 9 months ago)
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David Rutley
Once again, an hon. Friend makes a vital point. It is critical to bring city and county together. There is a lot of talk about cities, and that is understandable, as a lot of journalists work in cities and they get that side of things, but the truth is that the broad and important rural agenda needs to be linked into cities. I passionately believe that city and county need to work together, and it will be through strategic partnerships that we make that work. The initiative in Cheshire, Liverpool and Manchester that we want to move forward is the science corridor, so that we have a thriving life sciences sector stretching from Liverpool to Manchester, down to Alderley Park and east to Macclesfield.
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester) (Con)
My hon. Friend is talking about life sciences, but it is worth saying that there has been a total renaissance of all science in the north-west. We have the Sir Henry Royce Institute in Manchester, the Cognitive Computing Research Centre at Daresbury, the Square Kilometre Array in Cheshire, the National Graphene Institute at the university of Manchester—
Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between David Rutley and Stephen Mosley(10 years, 11 months ago)
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David Rutley (Macclesfield) (Con)
2. What assessment she has made of recent trends in the level of crime.
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester) (Con)
7. What assessment she has made of recent trends in the level of crime.
The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mrs Theresa May)
Police reform is working. Crime is down by more than a fifth under this Government, according to the independent crime survey for England and Wales. England and Wales are safer than they have been for decades, with the survey showing crime at its lowest levels since the survey began in 1981.
Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between David Rutley and Stephen Mosley
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester) (Con)
10. What steps he is taking to encourage development on brownfield land.
David Rutley (Macclesfield) (Con)
12. What steps he is taking to encourage development on brownfield land.