VoteClimate: China Clay Industry (Job Losses) - 5th February 2014

China Clay Industry (Job Losses) - 5th February 2014

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate China Clay Industry (Job Losses).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2014-02-05/debates/14020579000003/ChinaClayIndustry(JobLosses)

19:25 The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (Michael Fallon)

I understand the pressures being faced by the energy intensive industries, such as the china clay sector, in terms of their international competitiveness, and I am extremely concerned about the impact of relatively high energy prices. The Government are very clear that decarbonisation does not and should not mean deindustrialisation. There would be no advantage—for our economy or in terms of global emissions reductions—in simply forcing UK businesses to relocate abroad.

Plymouth was one of the 20 locations announced in wave 2 as being able to bid to central Government for a city deal. It will be a twin-LEP city deal with Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, and we hope that that will contribute to a deal based on strengths in advanced engineering and design, marine renewable energy, maritime and sub-sea operations and supporting technologies. The deal seeks to do that by increasing the commercialisation of research in these areas and increasing exports from its high growth.

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