Unemployment (North-east) - 20th June 2012

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Unemployment (North-east).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2012-06-20/debates/12062075000001/UnemploymentNortheast

14:34 Mr Wright

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Just further up the coast in Hartlepool, we have a thriving renewable energy industry with great firms, such as JDR Cable Systems and Heerema Hartlepool, which can supply a lot of offshore wind turbine components. However, investors are crying out for certainty from the Government. They need policy certainty to allow them to invest for the long term. The Government are failing spectacularly on that.

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14:34 Mr Wright

I will certainly give way to my hon. Friend, because I know he has a particular interest in renewable energy in his constituency.

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14:35 Mr Wright

Despite the huge potential in my constituency and the wider north-east, the unemployment situation is bleak. I know that in his response, the Whip will cling to the argument, like a dying man to a life raft, that today’s statistics show that employment in the north-east has increased by 3,000 on the previous quarter, and that unemployment in my constituency is down by 15, month-on-month. That is welcome news, but I would never say, as the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change did on a recent visit to Newcastle, that the unemployment rate was not as bad as it could be, or as it seemed. Again, that is deeply insulting to everyone in the north-east who has lost a job and is desperately looking for work. It shows a Government who are grossly out of touch with what the people of the north-east want and need.

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