Great visit to NETPark North East Technology Park yesterday with my friend and colleague Victoria Atkins who is the Financial Secretary in the Treasury.
We met with various businesses in the park to discuss some of the challenges and opportunities of SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) as they seek to expand and the support government provides and how that can be fine-tuned.
I also got to introduce Victoria to Arnab and the team at Kromek Group plc - where we got to discuss the way they are developing high end technology to monitor for things like liquid and dirty bombs.