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Debate between Greg Hands and Eddie Hughes
Thursday 22nd February 2018

(6 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Eddie Hughes Portrait Eddie Hughes (Walsall North) (Con)
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T8. How can the many excellent manufacturing businesses in the Black country benefit when we leave the customs union?

Greg Hands Portrait Greg Hands
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My hon. Friend is a fine and upstanding voice for the Black country. He will know that manufacturing experienced a 2.8% growth rate over the past year. Leaving the customs union provides an opportunity to enhance that growth, particularly as manufacturing exports outside the EU are growing so fast.