Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee

Richard Fuller Excerpts

Thursday 22nd July 2021 Commons Chamber

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Judith Cummins)]

I will now call Members to put questions on the subject of the statement and will then call Darren Jones to respond to them in turn.

[Richard Fuller (North East Bedfordshire) (Con)]

Does the hon. Member agree that, as the Government better define levelling-up, they should not lose sight of the leading role and ideas of the private sector, including those announced yesterday in the Richard Koch breakthrough prize, which can supercharge growth in left-behind Britain, such as “zoom towns”, distributed policy making, reinvigorated provincial stock exchanges and—the overall winning idea—a people’s rebate?