Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Karen Lumley and Vince Cable

Thursday 23rd January 2014 Commons Chamber

[Karen Lumley (Redditch) (Con)]

T1. If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

[The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (Vince Cable)]

My Department is concerned with the promotion of growth, recovery and a rebalanced economy.

[Karen Lumley]

Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating Bee Design Consultancy, which I visited last Friday in my constituency? In the past few years, it has gone from having two employees to 19, and it now exports its skills all over the world, recently to Lamborghini in Italy. I invite him to come to Redditch to visit the company next time he is in the west midlands.

[Vince Cable]

I would be delighted to come to my hon. Friend’s constituency and share that success. It is not just about mainstream car producers, but specialists, as she describes.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Karen Lumley and Vince Cable

Thursday 17th February 2011 Commons Chamber

[Vince Cable]

In a way, that is what the New Economics Foundation is there for.

[Karen Lumley (Redditch) (Con)]

10. What assessment his Department has made of the administrative burden on businesses of the process for issuing export licences.