Oral Answers to Questions

Rebecca Smith Excerpts

Thursday 5th December 2024 Commons Chamber

The Minister for the Cabinet Office was asked—

[Rebecca Smith (South West Devon) (Con)]

1. What progress the mission delivery boards have made.

[Andrew Cooper (Mid Cheshire) (Lab)]

4. What steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to implement the Government’s five missions.

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[The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Pat McFadden)]

The Government’s five missions offer real benefits to people living in every part of the country: higher living standards, more energy security, safer streets, lower waiting lists, and a renewed confidence that the future will be better for our children. We have already made progress, including launching a national wealth fund, providing an additional £22.6 billion for the NHS over the next couple of years, launching a new border security command, providing £1.4 billion more for school rebuilding and removing the de facto ban on onshore wind farms. The Prime Minister will unveil his plan for change later this morning, which sets out how we will deliver further on our missions over the next few years, and I am due to give a statement to the House on that matter later this morning.

[Rebecca Smith]

How will the Prime Minister’s five mission boards learn from the clear lack of join-up between the Treasury and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs over the family farm tax and the family business tax to ensure that they do not become five mission silos?