Oral QuestionDepartment for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

What steps he is taking to (a) encourage entrepreneurship and (b) support small business expansion.

Tabled: 19 October 2022Answered: 25 October 2022

Asked by

Simon Lightwood

Labour (Co-op)Wakefield and Rothwell

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Employment (Alison McGovern)

We still have more than 800,000 vacancies in this economy, and businesses are crying out for staff. That is why, through our reform programme, we are determined that the DWP will serve business better. I look forward to working with Members across the House to make that happen.