The Business and Trade Committee will question Business Secretary
Peter Kyle on Tuesday after publishing seven major reports in
seven weeks examining some of the biggest challenges facing
British businesses.
MPs will begin by pressing the Secretary of State over the
Government's response to the Committee's report on small
business, after concluding that ministers have not yet produced a
sufficiently ambitious plan to tackle the unsustainable pressures
facing firms on Britain's high streets.
The Committee's report warns that small business confidence is
too low, that the Government response is inadequate and more
needs to be done to stop the slow death of the UK high streets.
The session will also examine:
- progress on the Industrial Strategy;
- implementation of employment rights reforms;
- procurement reform and support for growing UK firms;
- steel, tariffs and UK-US and UK-EU trade;
- Royal Mail's ongoing service failures, one year into the
takeover by Czech Sphinx Daniel Ketínský's EP Group and the
still unresolved Post Office scandal;
- competition policy and consumer protection;
- economic security, including the UK's approach to China.
Rt Hon MP, Chair of the Committee,
said:
"Over the last seven weeks we've published seven major reports
exposing where Britain's business environment needs to improve
fast. We've set out practical recommendations to strengthen
investment, back small businesses, improve trade, protect
consumers and make our economy more secure.
"Now it's time to ask a simple question: what is changing?
Businesses need delivery, not just good intentions."
On Tuesday 7 July at
230pm: The Department for
Business and Trade's priorities and performance
- Amanda Brooks CBE, Interim Permanent Secretary at Department
for Business and Trade
