Housing White Paper

Iain Wright Excerpts

Tuesday 7th February 2017 Commons Chamber

[Sajid Javid]

Yes.

[Mr Iain Wright (Hartlepool) (Lab)]

Will the Secretary of State outline how the White Paper aligns with the industrial strategy? How will the Government collaborate with the construction industry on skills, the supply chain, innovation and regional imbalances to ensure that the house building challenge can be met?

[Sajid Javid]

There is an important link, and one example relates to skills. I mentioned earlier the importance of factory build and its promotion. That requires a different type of skill set, and the Government need to support that, but it will help more generally with the skills challenge. We will have a new immigration policy following our departure from the European Union, so we must think carefully about that and the link with the construction industry.