Oral Question·Department for Business and Trade
“What steps he is taking to help increase business confidence.”
Tabled: 23 January 2025Answered: 30 January 2025
Asked by
Sir John Whittingdale
Conservative — Maldon
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Business and Trade
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Gareth Thomas)
As the Chancellor of the Exchequer said only yesterday, we are driving forward planning reforms, boosting capital investment by over £100 billion over the next five years, and creating the national wealth fund. We are launching the business growth service and will soon publish our modern industrial strategy, which will be unreservedly pro-business. Business leaders, not surprisingly, have backed those measures.