Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Steve Race and Lindsay Hoyle

Thursday 13th March 2025 Commons Chamber

[Mr Speaker]

Order. Look, this is getting ridiculous. We are on topicals, and that is the worst example I have seen of an answer to a topical.

[Steve Race (Exeter) (Lab)]

T2. The south-west has a huge number of innovative start-up and scale-up businesses, but we attract only about 3% of private equity and venture capital funding per year. What is the Department doing to ensure that foreign direct investors are aware of, and have access to, the fantastic business infrastructure opportunities that we have in Exeter and across the south-west?