Business and Trade Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Business and Trade

Feryal Clark Excerpts
Tuesday 12th March 2024

(8 months, 2 weeks ago)

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Nusrat Ghani Portrait Ms Ghani
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UK exports are increasing. Using current prices, they are up by £21 billion compared with 2022.

Feryal Clark Portrait Feryal Clark
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We are lucky that Enfield North has quite a lot of small and medium-sized businesses, but they are suffering because of the cost of spiralling bills and no Government support. Does the Minister think it is the lack of a Government industrial strategy or the lack of individual support for exporters that is most holding our businesses back?

Nusrat Ghani Portrait Ms Ghani
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That is an extraordinary statement, because in the hon. Lady’s constituency the greatest level of exports is from professional and business services, and those exports are increasing not only to the EU but to countries outside the EU.

[Official Report, 7 March 2024, Vol. 746, c. 944.]

Letter of correction from the Minister for Industry and Economic Security, the hon. Member for Wealden (Ms Ghani):

An error has been identified in my response to the hon. Member for Enfield North (Feryal Clark). The reply should have been: