Extract from Lords debate
on Revised Draft Airports National Policy Statement
(GP):...The Government’s long-term target of abolishing
cars driven only by petrol and diesel by 2040 is also rather
feeble. The article points out that India has made the same pledge but
for 2030. There is also the fact that replacing cars with more cars
is not necessarily the answer. Electric cars can also be polluting
if their source of electricity is not renewable...
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Extract from Lords debate
on the Economy: Spring Statement
(Con):...The implications for our society are for many
fewer jobs overall. This will be the first industrial revolution
that destroys more jobs than it creates, and it will be a society
that looks like an unbalanced hourglass in terms of work prospects:
a small blob at the top for those who are successful, a long thin
middle and another blob at the bottom for those able to do the
humdrum jobs that cannot be mechanised. All this will cause
stresses and strains on our social cohesion. It will be emphasised
because, over the next 25 years, we will see an ineluctable drift
in wealth from the West to the East. The rising economic powers of
the next 25 years will be India, China, and south-east Asia. Whether
we like it or not, we will be in a relatively slower part of the
stream. That, too, will emphasise problems that we might have in
this country...
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Questions: Customs Union and Free Trade Agreements
(Harrow East) (Con):
I thank my hon. Friend for her answers. India currently enjoys a
growth rate of 7.5% and is on course to be the fifth biggest
economy in the world. Given our cultural links and shared history
with our friends in India, does my right hon. Friend—my hon.
Friend; I am getting ahead of myself—agree that we have an
opportunity to forge a trade deal with India, which will be
excellent news for the UK and India?
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting
the European Union (Suella Fernandes): My hon. Friend is
absolutely right. India represents a great opportunity in trade
for Britain and British consumers and for our Indian
counterparts. It is no coincidence that the Prime Minister made a
point of visiting India early on in her premiership. The
Department for International Trade has recently completed a trade
audit with India to look at the particular barriers, and the
joint economic and trade committee has decided to look at four
sectors—food, life sciences, IT and services—to see where
opportunities can be explored.
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