West Midlands Regional Committee - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]
The impact of the current economic and financial situation on businesses in the West Midlands Region

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 13 July 2009.

West Midlands Regional Committee

Monday 8 June 2009

Members present

Richard Burden (Chairman)

Mr Adrian Bailey	Joan Walley
Mr David Kidney

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CONTENTS

Witnesses: Dr Laura Cohen, Chief Executive, British Ceramic Confederation, Mike Shirley, Managing Director, Jesse Shirley and Son Ltd and Chairman, Hudson's Fine Bone China Ltd, and Brian Standbridge, Regional Manufacturing Director, Ideal Standard International, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

87-99

100-119

120-130

Witness: Gerard Coyne, Regional Secretary of Unite the Union, West Midlands, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

131-139

140-159

160-165

Witnesses: Mark Barrow, Chief Executive, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and Chairman, Individual and Community Support Workstream, Steve Burrows, Deputy Corporate Director, Staffordshire County Council, Chris Harman, Interim Chief Executive, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, and Tom Macartney, Managing Director, North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership and Director of Regeneration, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, gave evidence.

Question Numbers

166-179

180-183

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Prepared 31 July 2009