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Oral Answers to Questions

Pete Wishart Excerpts
Tuesday 11th October 2022

(2 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Felicity Buchan Portrait Felicity Buchan
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We are encouraging all higher and local authorities to look at the investment zones and to apply. I think they are a great tool for development, so I would absolutely encourage that application.

Pete Wishart Portrait Pete Wishart (Perth and North Perthshire) (SNP)
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“Never has so much chaos been inflicted on so many by so few” will be the motto that will reverberate down the eons from this Government. Do they actually still believe in this fairy tale of levelling up? Is it not now just a matter of how far they are going to level us all down?

Felicity Buchan Portrait Felicity Buchan
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Everything we are doing is being driven by a growth agenda so that we can level up all the way across the United Kingdom.