Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Employment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 7 February 1995.
Has my right hon. Friend had the opportunity to read this year's Barclays Business News, which states that last year a net figure of more than 24,000 new small businesses were started? Does he agree with me that—[Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Hemsworth (Mr. Enright) would listen, he might hear something worth listening to. Does my right hon. Friend agree that with more than 2.6 million small businesses in this country we need to encourage those enterprises and that the last thing that we want to do is heap non-wage costs on them, as the Labour party would do? Would that not destroy jobs?