Extract from Westminster Hall debate on the Shared Prosperity Fund - May 14
Wednesday, 15 May 2019 08:01
Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central) (Lab):...Looking at the north of
England, Transport for the North’s “Northern Powerhouse Independent
Economic Review” suggests that we could add £97 billion to our
economy by 2025, which is over and above business-as-usual levels.
Over the same period, we could add 850,000 jobs, which is also over
and above business-as-usual levels. We can do that by focusing on
what we are good at. In South Yorkshire, the same qualities that
fired the world’s first...Request free
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(Barnsley Central)
(Lab):...Looking at the north of England, Transport for
the North’s “Northern Powerhouse Independent Economic Review”
suggests that we could add £97 billion to our economy by 2025,
which is over and above business-as-usual levels. Over the same
period, we could add 850,000 jobs, which is also over and above
business-as-usual levels. We can do that by focusing on what we are
good at. In South Yorkshire, the same qualities that fired the
world’s first industrial revolution now power our 21st-century
advanced manufacturing and engineering story. Companies such
as Rolls-Royce, Boeing and McLaren have chosen our
region because we are in the vanguard of developing new materials
and solutions to real-life manufacturing and engineering problems.
This must be the start of our economic transformation, not the end.
To go further, we must have the tools and resources...
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