Oral Question·Department for Business and Trade
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 4 December 2025Answered: 11 December 2025
Asked by
Alison Griffiths
Conservative — Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Answer from Hansard
Blair McDougall
The hon. Lady intervened on me to make a similar point in yesterday’s debate. She and her party knew that the transitional covid relief was coming to end and that revaluation was coming, because that had been agreed when the Conservatives were in Government. The difference with this Government is that we have put in more than £4 billion to cushion that transition. That shows our support for small businesses, versus them being thrown overboard by her party when they were in government.