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Oral Answers to Questions

Greg Mulholland Excerpts
Thursday 7th July 2011

(12 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. Ministers are rather testing the knee muscles of a number of right hon. and hon. Members who keep bouncing up and down.

Greg Mulholland Portrait Greg Mulholland (Leeds North West) (LD)
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T4. Leeds has a strong case to be considered for the green investment bank, and I look forward to discussing it next week with the Minister, but may I ask for some cross-departmental working? The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills announcement, which appeared to suggest that Leeds was no longer in the running, was not helpful, so can the Minister assure me that it is not a foregone conclusion that the bank will be in London ?

Chris Huhne Portrait Chris Huhne
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I can assure my hon. Friend that no decisions on the matter have been taken. He is absolutely right that BIS is the lead Department on it, but decisions are some way off and we have some work to do on scoping and on getting right the detail of the proposals before siting becomes salient.