Oral QuestionDepartment for Business and Trade

What steps his Department is taking to support the delivery of the funding plans outlined in the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Mansion House speech.

Tabled: 5 December 2024Answered: 12 December 2024

Asked by

Mr Luke Charters

LabourYork Outer

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Answer from Hansard

The Minister for Industry (Sarah Jones)

Growth is the Government’s No. 1 mission and, in her Mansion House speech, the Chancellor announced a package of reforms to drive growth and investment across the UK. I have lost count of the number of times I have had conversations with businesses where they talked about how our appetite for risk is not in the right place, and we are looking to reform that. Here in DBT, we are driving change through our new industrial strategy working across Departments, which we will publish in the spring.