Industrial Growth

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 March 1994.

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Photo of Mr John Butcher Mr John Butcher , Coventry South West 12:00, 9 March 1994

Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the things that worry German industrialists is the way in which social and welfare costs in Germany are loaded on to employers' costs and the costs of employment? In this country, the same social and welfare programmes are funded by the taxpayer. Does that not represent the best possible deal for British wealth creators and the British social programme? Will my right hon. Friend use his role as the defender of the interests of the wealth-creating sector and of other Whitehall Departments to ensure that that deal is not broken, no matter what emanates from Brussels in the future?