industries of the future. i believe biotechnology is very good at biotechnology as well as defense. we as a government are investing with these companies in the equipment they need for the future. i am optimistic about the british economy. i am optimistic about this region. what i insist on is the banks do land. that s why we appointed an arbitrator where people are dissatisfied with what the banks decide. they can go to them and we will back them up. secondly we will continue to give investment allowances which will be abolished by the conservatives. and we will maintain the development agencies which again the conservatives want to remove. it is very important we back regional manufacturing in this great center. just a reminder. the birmingham area was full of things that made things. so many have been shutdown or sold off and gone abroad. i want to know how you propose to rebuild the manufacturing
every firm to try and help them keep the profit to reinvest and expand and take people on. that s what a growing economy needs. right now we are stuck. the prime minister talks about renewable energy after 13 years of the labor government. we have one of the lowest shares of renewable energy of any country in europe. we had 9 energy ministers, well two were the same person. several strategies, but nothing happens. what we need is change for a government that understands business, that feels the beating heart of entrepreneurs within it and gets things moving. david, will you not answers the questions? why are you cutting investment allowances for the manufacturing industry? why are you also going to take away the regional development agencies and scrap the functions? what good does that do to the west midlands that wants investment in the agency and wants it to work for them? we are cutting taxes for businesses in our forthcoming
and we are now the world s leading offshore wind power. companies including seamans will invest in wind power in this country as a result of government incentives. we are doing the same for digital because we want 100% broadband in the country that will serve the rural areas. you need some finance to persuade people it is necessary that go to 100% and not to 70%. by a technology we are investing substantial sums in the leading cancer and research center that for the whole of europe will be in britain as a result of investment we are making. i come back to this point, if you cut investment allowances, david and cut the development agencies that are a symbol of what the regions can do themselves, and if you do that, you are putting manufacturing industry at risk and doing the opposite of what is needed now. all right, thank you. david cameron? each day cutting corporation tax for banks. i want to cut for small firms,
national takeover to cadbury s. when you lent the money did you think it would be used to put people out of work in britain? no and it was wrong. we have troubled a number of uh [tau ships from 70,000 to over 200,000 now. and we want to look at that over the next few years. at the same time there are more students going to university than ever before in our history. and i am pleased to say the majority of students are now women. to help manufacturing, the regional development agencies have a power to support the individual businesses and there is more than 20,000 firms in this region receiving help with cash flow under our program time to pay. the problem is now. you can t take money out of the economy as david proposes and hope that businesses can survive with orders. you have to keep the money in the economy. you can t take investment allowances away from businesses as david proposes