Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Oral Answers to Questions

Peter Bone Excerpts
Tuesday 15th December 2015

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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Absolutely. The hon. Lady makes an important point. I know that the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has been taking this matter very seriously. One thing we have done recently is to move some of the UKTI resources into my right hon. Friend’s Department so that there is better co-ordination.

Peter Bone Portrait Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con)
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I recently talked to a senior Indian businessman and asked him how we could increase trade with India. He said that the one thing we could do was to leave the EU because of the restrictions. Will the Secretary of State, either as Secretary of State or personally, endorse his comment?

Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I spoke to a lot of Indian businessmen and women and many Indian students last week. There is certainly one area in respect of which we could certainly increase our exports to India, and that is education.