Member

The review I wrote for the Government is an oven-ready plan to address many of these issues. They have still not formally responded to it and have committed to only one of the 32 recommendations. It is suboptimal that we have to use amendments to this Bill to push through some of those proposals. It would be far better to have some central leadership and a co-ordinated strategy that works across government, bringing together departments such as DSIT and the Home Office on these issues. It strikes me that they are still completely siloed on this. I am determined to not look back in 10 years and wish we had done more. I hope this Government will now be driven by this same determination. I thank the Minister for the meeting last week; I know that she feels strongly about this issue.