It is fantastic to hear that the Government’s policy is that Whitehall does not just know best, which is indeed what I thought the Government’s policy was before. Why then is the Secretary of State closing the BIS office in Sheffield and moving it to central London where, by default, decisions on investment will be much narrower and much more focused to central London, away from the so-called northern powerhouse?
Enterprise Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Louise Haigh
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 2 February 2016.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Enterprise Bill [Lords].
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