{"value":{"id":1751910,"askingMemberId":655,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2024-12-19T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2025-01-07T00:00:00","uin":"HL3683","questionText":"To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to revive business confidence across the United Kingdom after the budget.","answeringBodyId":214,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Business and Trade","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":3792,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2025-01-07T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Growth is the number one mission of the government. We have taken action including: progressing planning reforms<em>; </em>boosting capital investment by over £100 billion over the next five years<em>; </em>creating the National Wealth Fund; publishing the Corporate Tax Roadmap; announcing the Business Growth Service; and setting out pension reform proposals to unlock new investment.</p><p> </p><p>Our modern Industrial Strategy will be unreservedly pro-business, and our Green Paper set out our vision for a credible, 10-year plan to deliver the certainty and stability businesses need to invest across the UK. We are engaging widely, and have appointed a diverse group of the UK’s top business leaders, policy experts and trade union leaders to the Industrial Strategy Advisory Council to drive this forward.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Business: Investment","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1751910","method":"GET"}]}