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Oral Answers to Questions

Mark Menzies Excerpts
Tuesday 12th October 2010

(14 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Mark Menzies Portrait Mark Menzies (Fylde) (Con)
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T7. In the Budget statement, the Chancellor of the Exchequer mentioned the need to rebalance the economy towards export-led growth, which is particularly important for constituencies such as mine in the north-west. Will he update the House on the Government’s progress in that respect?

George Osborne Portrait Mr Osborne
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I have seen at BAe Warton in my hon. Friend’s constituency a very good example of high-skilled manufacturing. Everything the Government do is designed to support a private sector recovery and to rebalance our economy, so that not all the growth that takes place does so in only one corner of the country.