Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between George Freeman and Matt Warman

Tuesday 10th November 2015 Commons Chamber

[George Freeman]

The hon. Gentleman has picked the wrong Minister to talk about industrial strategy, seeing as I lead one of our most successful ones on life sciences. The Secretary of State’s speech yesterday made very clear our commitment to innovation, and this Department, though our investment in science and innovation, is leading in building a long-term economic plan for the science, industries and innovation of tomorrow. The hon. Gentleman can cite trade balance figures all he likes, but the truth is that we are in a global economy and we cannot control the rate at which other economies grow around the world.

[Matt Warman (Boston and Skegness) (Con)]

9. What steps he is taking to prevent businesses exploiting migrant workers.