Businesses (North of England)
Debate between Stephen Mosley and David Rutley(9 years, 5 months ago)
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David Rutley
Once again, an hon. Friend makes a vital point. It is critical to bring city and county together. There is a lot of talk about cities, and that is understandable, as a lot of journalists work in cities and they get that side of things, but the truth is that the broad and important rural agenda needs to be linked into cities. I passionately believe that city and county need to work together, and it will be through strategic partnerships that we make that work. The initiative in Cheshire, Liverpool and Manchester that we want to move forward is the science corridor, so that we have a thriving life sciences sector stretching from Liverpool to Manchester, down to Alderley Park and east to Macclesfield.
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester) (Con)
My hon. Friend is talking about life sciences, but it is worth saying that there has been a total renaissance of all science in the north-west. We have the Sir Henry Royce Institute in Manchester, the Cognitive Computing Research Centre at Daresbury, the Square Kilometre Array in Cheshire, the National Graphene Institute at the university of Manchester—
Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between Stephen Mosley and David Rutley(9 years, 7 months ago)
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David Rutley (Macclesfield) (Con)
2. What assessment she has made of recent trends in the level of crime.
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester) (Con)
7. What assessment she has made of recent trends in the level of crime.
Oral Answers to Questions
Debate between Stephen Mosley and David Rutley
Stephen Mosley (City of Chester) (Con)
10. What steps he is taking to encourage development on brownfield land.
David Rutley (Macclesfield) (Con)
12. What steps he is taking to encourage development on brownfield land.