Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Sonia Kumar and James Murray

Tuesday 21st January 2025 Commons Chamber

[James Murray]

What we accept is that the difficult decisions we took at the Budget enabled extra funding to be put into the NHS. GP surgeries have had a funding settlement that considers all the pressures on them in the round.

[Sonia Kumar (Dudley) (Lab)]

My constituency has a proud industrial heritage, with manufacturing still worth £1 billion a year to the local economy from sectors that account for nearly 10% of the UK’s total economic output. What steps have the Government taken to promote the growth of the manufacturing sector and ensure that towns like Dudley continue to build on their industrial traditions?