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**Introduction: competitiveness **You have heard the PM speak about achieving economic growth and jobs in the UK in an environment where …
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Deputy Prime Minister gave a speech on the green economy at the Global Business Summit on Energy on 6 August 2012.
Extracts from the Chancellor's lecture on economic policy at the Royal Economic Society.
A speech by the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State.
David Cameron spoke about the British aerospace industry, UK trade and industry, and the opportunities for future investment.
First published during the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government
David Mundell welcomes latest positive report on Scottish economy.
Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today called on struggling homeowners not to bury their heads in the sand but to seek early help if they are…
Business Minister pledges tougher action to eliminate burdens on enterprise.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb addresses the Education Reform Summit.
Introduction This is the first coalition in sixty five years. The last coalition won a world war. This one must tame our biggest ever peacetime…
Business leaders, NHS reforms and Mitt Romney were among the topics discussed at this press briefing.
Speech by the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
A speech by the Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.
Well you have a good example of speaker ‘inflation’ today. You booked the deputy leader of the Lib Dems, but you get a Secretary of State. Not…
Ministers set out the work the government is doing in partnership with business to help manufacturing strengthen the economic recovery.
Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden's closing speech at the UK Tech Cluster Group's Road to Recovery summit
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Rural businesses and communities across Wales will be getting an opportunity to explain how they have been hit by the economic downturn - and…
Prime Minister Theresa May spoke at the CBI annual conference to set out her vision for UK business including a modern Industrial Strategy.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
The Prime Minister gave a press conference at the end of the G20 summit in Cannes on 4 November 2011.
Education Minister Elizabeth Truss gives an international evidence speech following today's publication of the PIRLS and TIMSS test results.
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