Enterprise Zones (North-east) - 31st March 2011

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

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2011-03-31/debates/11033156000042/EnterpriseZonesNortheast

Sharon Hodgson (Labour)

I am very pleased to hear that the Minister got a positive response—I would expect nothing less of the friendly north-east. The Chancellor said in his Budget statement last Wednesday that there would be an enterprise zone on Tyneside, but the Red Book refers to an enterprise zone in the North Eastern local enterprise partnership, and I am sure the Minister is aware that they are not one and the same. The Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change told the Sunderland Echo that Sunderland had a really good chance of getting an enterprise zone. Will the Minister confirm that the Chancellor misled the House last week and that a decision has not yet been made on where—

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