2018 January 18
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Impact Assessment or Sectoral Analysis?
- 18/01/2018
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
No CommentsIn December 2016 David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, told the Exiting the EU Select Committee that the Government was carrying out approximately 58 sets of analyses of the impact of Brexit on sectors which accounted for 85% of the UK economy.
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Business Questions 18 January 2018
- 18/01/2018
- Posted by: Valerie Vaz MP
- Category: News
At Business Questions this week I raised Carillion’s insolvency. Short sellers made £137 million when Carillion’s share price fell by 70% over the course of three trading days following the July profit warning. Hedge funds were betting on the collapse of the shares of a company that provides vital public services. I asked for the Government to make a statement on the urgent steps that they are taking following Carillion’s insolvency and also to set up a taskforce to support the innocent people who were doing their job on one day, but out of that job the next through no fault of their own.