Member

However, I want to put on record how frustrated I am. I have not been a servant of this House for long, but I am trying to be an active participant and am frustrated on the House’s behalf at how it feels it is being treated at the moment. Candidly, the Government do not need to restore the trust of Members in my party, but they do need to restore the trust of businesses and put in place updated impact assessments so that they know what we are facing into. It is critical to their mission of growth, having spent an election doing X, Y and Z, and keeping a number of their promises, that, if they really want to see this country prosper, they need to keep business engaged and involved—and not just with the token consultations that we have. I have seen them on some of the amendments that we have done—perhaps not the ones we are specifically talking to now—where they are saying, “Yeah, we’ve heard the consultation, but we don’t agree, stuff it”, even though two-thirds of businesses are saying, “We think this is really bad”.