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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Tuesday Volume 575 11 February 2014 No. 121 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Tuesday 11 February 2014 £5·00 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2014 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Open Parliament licence, which is published at www.parliament.uk/site-information/copyright/. 689 11 FEBRUARY 2014 690 Greg Clark: The hon. Gentleman knows that the House of Commons funding for lending scheme, which the Government and the Bank of England have promoted, has explicitly Tuesday 11 February 2014 concentrated on getting lending going to small businesses, but as my hon. Friend the Member for Bedford (Richard Fuller) said, bank lending is not the only source of The House met at half-past Eleven o’clock finance needed. The venture capital funds established under our city deals are an important and welcome way PRAYERS in which small businesses can benefit from the finance they need to expand. [MR SPEAKER in the Chair] City Deals 2. Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon) (Con): What Oral Answers to Questions assessment he has made of how city deals are working. [902504] The Minister of State, Cabinet Office (Greg Clark): DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER We have now agreed 19 city deals, and although they are for the long term, those in the first wave are The Deputy Prime Minister was asked— already making a significant difference. For example, in Entrepreneurship Birmingham, more than 2,000 new apprenticeships have been provided. In Newcastle, infrastructure works are nearly complete on the Science Central development on 1. Richard Fuller (Bedford) (Con): What steps the what was previously derelict land. In Manchester, work Government are taking with local enterprise partnerships will shortly begin on the airport relief road, and Liverpool to promote entrepreneurship in towns and communities is hosting the international business festival in June and across the UK. [902503] July, which I know the hon. Member for Liverpool, The Minister of State, Cabinet Office (Greg Clark): West Derby (Stephen Twigg) will be supporting and to Local enterprise partnerships, independently and through which I will ensure all colleagues receive an invitation. city deals, promote entrepreneurship in a variety of ways, including by providing help and advice to small Nadhim Zahawi: Will the Minister consider spreading businesses, premises for start-ups and access to venture the excellent city deal initiative to all parts of the capital funds. Next month, in my hon. Friend’s area, a country? small business support service will begin, bringing together the local enterprise partnership, the chambers of commerce, Greg Clark: I can confirm that there is in fact a city the Federation of Small Businesses, the Institute of deal covering my hon. Friend’s constituency, the Coventry Directors and the Engineering Employers Federation, and Warwickshire city deal, which is focused on making to assist new and growing businesses in his area. the most of the opportunities in the supply chain for advanced manufacturing. Furthermore, through the Richard Fuller: Successful entrepreneurs, particularly available local growth funds, the principle of city deals in local communities, are best placed to promote growth, is being established across the whole of England, and I jobs and prosperity. May I meet the Minister to discuss am looking forward to visiting each LEP to conduct how we can work together to develop a national network negotiations. of local enterprise funds to tap into communities’ sense of entrepreneurship? Ms Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston) (Lab): Is the Minister’s long-term vision that the various city Greg Clark: I would be delighted to do that. I pay deals will in essence mesh together to become a city tribute to my hon. Friend’s efforts in Bedford, where I region deal and therefore be spread more comprehensively think he has brought investors together to fund start-ups across the regions? and rapidly growing businesses. That is characteristic of many of the city deals that we have struck around the Greg Clark: The hon. Lady, who takes a great interest country. For example, in Nottingham, £40 million has in these matters, makes a good point. In the past few been made available, jointly by the Government, days, I have met in Birmingham all the LEPs and local Nottinghamshire county council and Nottingham city authorities from across the west midlands area precisely council, as well as local investors, to help invest in to ensure that their individual city and growth deals Nottingham businesses. I commend that to colleagues reinforce each other, so that the west midlands’ strong across the House. advantages, especially in advanced manufacturing, can be combined. Ian Lucas (Wrexham) (Lab): The most consistent barrier to entrepreneurship in my constituency is the Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight) (Con): What freedoms lack of available finance from banks. Does the right are granted to rural areas to match the Heseltine review hon. Gentleman accept that today’s announcement by and the city deals being given to urban areas? Barclays—of further bonus finance available to its staff— tells us that the Government do not get that it is Greg Clark: My hon. Friend, speaking for the Isle of necessary for them to pressure the banks to start lending Wight, makes an important point. In our response to in order to encourage entrepreneurship? the Heseltine review, we have extended the principle of 691 Oral Answers11 FEBRUARY 2014 Oral Answers 692 city deals to rural areas, including the Isle of Wight, so Congressman Ivan Cepeda, Carlos Lozano and many that the same financial flexibilities and powers will be others received appalling death threats, and the Colombian available, as they have been to cities. Defence Secretary continued to brand them as terrorists. Colombia’s human rights record is appalling. Why is David Wright (Telford) (Lab): In towns such as Telford, the Deputy Prime Minister now turning a blind eye for the Government still own a large portion of land through the purpose of “commercial expediency”? the Homes and Communities Agency structure. Would the Minister be willing to meet councillors and officials from Telford and Wrekin council to consider how we The Deputy Prime Minister: I do not agree with the could use that land in a city deal-type partnership to characterisation of what we are trying to do in our promote more growth and development? relationship with Colombia. Colombia is a society traumatised by horrific violence, and, as the hon. Gentleman has said, there are still some instances of terrible abuses Greg Clark: I have already done that. I went to and violence. It seems to me that, in the long run, the Telford last week to have precisely the conversations only way in which the country can find its feet and have that the hon. Gentleman has in mind, and I was impressed a proper, law-abiding system in which human rights are with the conversations that took place. [Interruption.] protected is through peace and non-violence throughout He is quite right that he should have been informed. I the country. hope he was, but if he was not, I apologise for the discourtesy. However, I met his council leader. I was It is important for us to support the negotiations impressed with the work going on there, and I look between President Santos and the FARC terrorist group forward to a future visit, to which the hon. Gentleman so that we can try to establish peace for the people of will certainly be invited. Colombia. In the meantime, we are very unambiguous in what we say and do in supporting human rights Miss Anne McIntosh (Thirsk and Malton) (Con): activists in the country—including NGO activists—and, Forgive my naivety, but I understood that city deals indeed, in supporting the Government of Colombia in were a creation of the previous Government, and that, ensuring that human rights are promoted. as suggested by my hon. Friend the Member for Isle of Wight (Mr Turner), they channelled transport and economic Mark Durkan (Foyle) (SDLP): Will the Deputy Prime development funds into cities and other urban areas Minister meet the all-party parliamentary group on and away from rural areas. human rights to discuss issues such as land rights, human rights and the health of the peace process, on Greg Clark: My hon. Friend is not right about that. which he will have been able to reflect during his visit? City deals are not an invention of the last Government; they were minted by this Government. In fact, we are told, the Labour leader of Manchester city council, Sir The Deputy Prime Minister: Of course I am keen to Richard Leese, believes that look constantly at ways in which we can collectively “there has been more progress towards the core cities taking reinforce our messages on human rights in troubled control of their own destiny in three years of the coalition than parts of the world such as Colombia, but we know from during 13 years of Labour.” peace processes of our own that, in the long run, the best way of guaranteeing human rights and the rule of Colombia law is to entrench peace, and to ensure that violence subsides and is then stopped altogether. That is what we 3. Robert Flello (Stoke-on-Trent South) (Lab): What are doing in our work with President Santos’s Government. discussions he had with human rights organisations, We are also ensuring that the free trade agreements into trade unions and opposition movements during his which the European Union has entered with Colombia recent visit to Colombia; and if he will make a contain very clear human rights provisions, to be enshrined statement. [902505] in 54 specific measures that the Colombian Government need to introduce in order to protect human rights The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Nick Clegg): I met under the terms of the free trade agreement.
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