Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Torsten Bell and Victoria Collins

Monday 23rd June 2025 Commons Chamber

[Torsten Bell]

The hon. Lady asks about what is going on with the economy. What is going on is that we have had four rate cuts over the past year. What is going on is that we have signed three trade deals over the past year. What is going on is that employment has gone up and inactivity has gone down. I know that the Opposition love to latch on to one month’s data, but let us look at the whole period of this Government: wages have increased by more under this party in the past 10 months than they did in the first 10 years of the Conservative Government.

[Victoria Collins (Harpenden and Berkhamsted) (LD)]

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