Oral Question·Department for Business and Trade
“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 22 June 2023Answered: 29 June 2023
Asked by
Robbie Moore
Conservative — Keighley and Ilkley
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Answer from Hansard
The Prime Minister
We will certainly not be following the Leader of the Opposition. She unveiled what she called her “golden economic rule”, I think it was, which involves £47 billion of spending cuts—that is a fifth of the NHS budget—with not a shred of detail about where the money would come from. The Institute for Government said that it was based on “shaky foundations”. More unfunded tax cuts, and more austerity for public services: the Conservatives have not listened, and they have not learnt.