Public Expenditure And Employment In The Construction Industry

EDM number 703 in 2010-12, proposed by Pat Glass on 09/09/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Construction industry and Public expenditure.

That this House deplores the loss of private sector construction jobs as a result of cuts in public expenditure including the Building Schools for the Future programme; notes the North East Chamber for Commerce findings that this will hit the North East region the hardest and cost the area an estimated 17,000 construction jobs; further notes that every 1 million of public sector infrastructure expenditure creates 20 construction jobs; and calls on the Government to continue investment in infrastructure.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.