Leaving the EU: Airbus Risk Assessment

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Monday 25th June 2018

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Greg Clark Portrait Greg Clark
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For all of us, it is “jobs” that we want to secure from our negotiations—good jobs—and we are determined to do so.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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Is it not the case that the United Kingdom has attracted more foreign direct investment than most, if not all, our European partners, and is it not the case that today, two years on from the referendum, there is more foreign direct investment in our economy than there was in 2016?

Greg Clark Portrait Greg Clark
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He will know that I spend time travelling around the world to encourage overseas investors to invest in our country and our economy. One of the reasons why they choose to do so is that we are a place of skills and ingenuity. We are also a place from which it is possible to export around the world, and we want to be able to maintain that. That is my purpose.