programme that we have in relation to the aerospace sector. Aerospace is an excellent example of how Government and industry can work together to create growth and world-leading industries. Alison Seabeck (Plymouth, Moor View) (Lab): I welcome the new team, who will be very aware that the Government's stated policy is to improve UK growth through exports. Will they therefore explain why there is only one UK delegate to the NATO delegation supporting British defence industry and exports to that particular market? The US have got 40, the French and Germans have several -- can we please have a bit of joined-up government and will he talk to his colleagues in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office? Vince Cable: I can explain what happened at that conference. My ministerial colleagues and I spend a great deal of time promoting defence exports, which are one of the main success stories in the rapid growth of our exports and one of the main features of the rebalancing that is taking place. Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale) (LD): In my constituency, 3,000 people are waiting desperately for a council house. Perhaps one answer to that problem, both in my area and across the country, might be to consider quantitative easing through social housing bonds, to ensure that there is an explosion in council house building in this country. Vince Cable: I know how passionately my colleague feels about this. I was with him a few weeks ago in his constituency and there is an