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Lindsay Hoyle Excerpts
Thursday 15th April 2021

(3 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order.

Graham Stuart Portrait Graham Stuart
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Export activity helped support a further 472,000 jobs in the region through the consumption spending of export workers in the wider economy. In total, more than 1.1 million jobs—not a laughing matter, Mr Speaker—in the region are linked to exports in some way.

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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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I am now suspending the House for three minutes to enable the necessary arrangements to be made for the next business.