"I am grateful to the Chairman of the Select Committee on Business, Innovation and Skills for giving way. I have listened to the spokesman for the Opposition and to the hon. Gentleman, but apart from one costed programme to accelerate broadband I have not heard a single policy from Her …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"In America the official unemployment rate is 9.5%; unofficially, it is 13%. Americans face the worst fiscal deficit since the slump of the 1930s, and, despite the huge fiscal stimulus package introduced by President Obama, the US economy is not producing enough jobs to reduce those rates of unemployment, let …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"My hon. Friend is prescient, because I was about to move on to that subject. The European Union has what it calls a “Small Business Act”, which requires the EU to look at every new regulation before it is introduced and consider its effect on small businesses to see whether …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"The simple answer is that the previous Government were not as successful at doing that as they should have been, and their policies were not coherent enough.
I say to the Minister for Universities and Science that we also have to look at bringing in visas for a few very …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"I made this point in my speech: we should be concentrating not only on the BRIC countries, but on other fast-growing markets such as Indonesia and Turkey, and I seek the Minister’s assurance that we will do that...." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"5. What the eligibility criteria will be for further education colleges for funding from the recently announced renewal and enhanced renewal grant schemes...." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"I warmly welcome the introduction of the funding, which will help colleges affected by the previous Government’s moratorium on Learning and Skills Council funding. However, independent specialist colleges, such as the National Star college in my constituency, which train some of the most affected disabled people in the country, were …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech
"I welcome my hon. Friend to his post, but may I return to the subject of special educational needs? He will be aware that in a low-spending authority such as Gloucestershire, parents, particularly disadvantaged parents, often struggle to get their children the special educational needs treatment that they need. Can …..." Geoffrey Clifton-Brown - View Speech