The BEIS Committee is to take evidence next Wednesday, November
29 from Business Secretary on the work of the Department
with questions likely to focus on the Government’s new Industrial
Strategy, the impact of Brexit and the Committee Report on the
Taylor Review in to modern working practices.
MP, Chair of the BEIS
Committee, said: “We will be putting the concerns of
businesses in the aerospace and automotive sector over Brexit to
the Secretary of State and asking him how the Government is
planning to ease those fears as part of the exit
negotiations.
We will be asking the Business Secretary how the Government
is going to address the worrying productivity problem and whether
the recent measures announced will rectify long term
under-performance. We will also have a first look at the
Government’s Industrial Strategy.
Finally, we will want to press the Minister on how the
Government plans to take forward the Taylor Review, following up
on the report our committee published on this last Monday.”
The inquiry in to the implications of Brexit for business has
previously heard from both the automotive and aerospace sectors
and the Committee will put concerns raised in those sessions to
the Secretary of State.
The session will also provide an early chance to question Mr
Clark on the Industrial Strategy, following the publication of
the White Paper on Monday, and issues arising out of last week’s
Budget.
The Secretary of State will face questions on how the Government
will respond to the Committee’s joint Report on the Taylor
Review, which was published last week alongside a draft Bill
aimed at ending exploitation in the gig economy.
