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id="ctl00_ctl00_SiteSpecificPlaceholder_PageContent_ctlMainBody_wrapperDiv" class="rte"> <p></p><div> <p>David Gauke, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, responded in the debate on behalf of the Government. Watch and read the views expressed by MPs during the debate on Parliament TV and in Commons Hansard.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120302164125/http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=10285">Parliament TV: Debate on the Northern Ireland Economy</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120302164125/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201212/cmhansrd/cm120301/halltext/120301h0001.htm#12030144000001">Commons Hansard: Debate on the Northern Ireland Economy</a></li></ul> <h2>Northern Ireland Select Committee reports</h2> <p>The debate follows the publication by the Northern Ireland Select Committee of a report into Corporation Tax in Northern Ireland and the Government's Response and the second report from the committee, Air Passenger Duty: Implications for Northern Ireland.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120302164125/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmniaf/558/55802.htm">Northern Ireland Affairs Committee report into the Northern Ireland Economy: Volume I</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120302164125/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmniaf/558/55802.htm">Northern Ireland Affairs Committee report into the Northern Ireland Economy: Volume II</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120302164125/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmniaf/1767/176702.htm">Government Response to the Northern Ireland Committee report into the Northern Ireland Economy</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120302164125/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmniaf/1227/122702.htm">Northern Ireland Affairs Committee report into Air Passenger Duty: Implications for Northern Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20120302164125/http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/northern-ireland-affairs-committee/">Northern Ireland Select Committee</a></li></ul> <h3>Westminster Hall debates</h3> <p>Westminster Hall adjournment debates allow MPs to discuss issues of local or personal interest which rarely have time to be debated in the main Chamber of the House of Commons. 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