Oral Question·HM Treasury
“What assessment his Department has made of the effect of the UK leaving the European Economic Area on the economy and the service industry.”
Tabled: 9 January 2018Answered: 16 January 2018
Asked by
Stephen Kinnock
Labour — Aberafan Maesteg
Answering Minister
Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer
Answer from Hansard
The Prime Minister
I thank my hon. Friend, who does a superb job for Peterborough. We are proud of the fact that our Employment Rights Bill is tackling the cost of insecure work, and that we are delivering that pay rise for 3 million of the lowest-paid. We know that the Leader of the Opposition opposes all that. She thinks that the minimum wage is a burden, and that maternity pay is excessive. It is the same old Tories. They opposed the minimum wage in the first place; they have learnt absolutely nothing.