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Oral Answers to Questions

Suella Braverman Excerpts
Tuesday 27th October 2015

(9 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Suella Braverman Portrait Suella Fernandes (Fareham) (Con)
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Does the Minister agree that raising productivity is the route to raising living standards for everybody, and that this Government’s commitment to cutting corporation tax, our historically high investment in infrastructure and the planning reforms will all contribute to achieving that aim?

Damian Hinds Portrait Damian Hinds
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I agree with all that. It is rising productivity that underpins rising real wages and therefore improving living standards.