Industry and Employment

Part of Opposition Day – in the House of Commons at 5:02 pm on 29 April 1999.

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Photo of John Redwood John Redwood Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 5:02, 29 April 1999

Is the Secretary of State suggesting that, in this Government, the economy is run by the Under-Secretary in the Department of Trade and Industry who holds the post equivalent to the one that I held? Does he set interest rates and create the conditions that lead to employment or unemployment? If that is what the right hon. Gentleman is suggesting, I shall have to disabuse him: I did not do all that when I was an Under-Secretary of State.