Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to recent data released by S&P Global showing that April had the fastest rise in business activity since last May, what steps they are taking to sustain this momentum and ensure continued economic growth.

The government is continuing to pursue an ambitious policy agenda to increase sustainable economic growth and productivity across the economy. This includes making full expensing permanent, announcing measures to boost labour supply, backing the UK’s priority growth sectors, and addressing long-term barriers to investment through planning and grid connection reforms.

The IMF forecasts that the UK will have the third fastest cumulative growth in the G7 over the 2024-2029 period and the OBR expects that policies announced in the previous three fiscal events will increase the size of the economy by 0.7% by 2028-29.