Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.

Tabled: 6 May 2025Answered: 12 May 2025

Asked by

Mr Gagan Mohindra

ConservativeSouth West Hertfordshire

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Answer from Hansard

Liz Kendall

The Government are providing the stability that businesses desperately need. We are working to transform skills in this country—that is absolutely what most businesses say to me they are desperately short of. We are overhauling our job centres, so that we actually serve businesses’ needs. I would just say gently to the hon. Gentleman that it was under his party that we saw the lowest business investment in the G7. We are going to overhaul that and make this the best country in which to start up and grow a business.