Anas Sarwar
Main Page: Anas Sarwar (Labour - Glasgow Central)
Mr Willetts
The hon. Gentleman is in danger of becoming the mad axeman. There are no 24,000 places being axed—he has invented that figure. What we have been able to do, even in tough times and even when we are reducing spending across the board, is broadly maintain the number of student places.
Anas Sarwar (Glasgow Central) (Lab)
2. What assessment he has made of the effects on growth of green investment; and if he will make a statement.
Paul Flynn (Newport West) (Lab)
4. What assessment he has made of the effects on growth of green investment; and if he will make a statement.
Anas Sarwar
Ernst and Young’s latest survey found that only 8% of renewable energy professionals said that they were optimistic that the Government would establish the conditions for success in the next 12 months and that only 14% of those surveyed expected significant growth and new jobs, which is a decrease from last November’s figure of 65%. Is it not clear that the Government are undermining confidence in growth in this important sector and are costing real jobs at a difficult time for our economy?
Vince Cable
The renewable energy sector will, of course, be given confidence and clarity as a result of the electricity market review, which my colleague the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change launched this week, and it will be given further confidence by the investments of the green investment bank, which will take shape in the coming months.