Family Businesses

Debate between Gurinder Singh Josan and Judith Cummins

Wednesday 26th February 2025 Commons Chamber

[Gurinder Singh Josan]

For my entire working life I have been self-employed in the family business which was established by my dad and my uncle in 1975. Does the Minister agree with my experience that family businesses do not operate in isolation? Lots of things matter to family businesses. If someone is ill in the morning, they cannot join the 8 am merry-go-round for a GP appointment—the state that the Tories left this country in—because they have to get to work, open up and get people through the door. If the buses do not work, staff cannot get in. If potholes are not fixed—

[Madam Deputy Speaker (Judith Cummins)]

Order.