Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Gavin Williamson and Greg Clark

Tuesday 11th September 2012 Commons Chamber

[Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire) (Con)]

15. What steps the Government have taken to reduce the cost of credit to the real economy.

[The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Greg Clark)]

rose—

[Greg Clark]

Goodness. Thank you. I feel like Boris Johnson.

The Government and the Bank of England have launched the funding for lending scheme to enable banks to make loans cheaper and more easily available to households and businesses. In addition, 19,000 cheaper loans have been offered to smaller businesses under the national loan guarantee system.

[Gavin Williamson]

I welcome my right hon. Friend to his new post and wish him every success. Many businesses in South Staffordshire face a great challenge in raising finance to grow and recruit new workers. Will he explain how the measures that he has outlined will help small and medium-sized businesses in my constituency to grow and expand?

National Planning Policy Framework

Debate between Gavin Williamson and Greg Clark

Tuesday 27th March 2012 Commons Chamber

[Greg Clark]

The changes in the Localism Act 2011 dealing with enforcement provide greater powers for local authorities to act on the unlawful occupation of sites by any resident or applicant.

[Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire) (Con)]

Green-belt land is often threatened as much by industrial development as by residential development. What assurances can my right hon. Friend give the House that the green belt will be protected from inappropriate industrial development?

[Greg Clark]

Inappropriate development extends to both residential and industrial development. It is the nature of the green belt that is protected, irrespective of what is proposed.