Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Nadhim Zahawi and Michael Fabricant

Monday 1st November 2021 Commons Chamber

[Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con)]

Does my right hon. Friend accept that arts subjects do not necessarily lead to arts careers? Does he know, for example, an honourable gentleman who, after doing a philosophy, politics and economics degree at Oxford, became a shopkeeper and now happens to be the Mayor of the West Midlands?

[Nadhim Zahawi]

Indeed I do, and he is a great Mayor who is transforming the city of Birmingham and the rest of the west midlands. My hon. Friend is right to remind the House that subjects such as PPE are incredibly important and that many leaders in industry do not necessarily have STEM degrees.