Speeches by Kyle.

“I share the premise of your question. As I said, I met last week with Matthew Taylor, and it was a really productive session. We have had our settlement from the spending review. We are in the process of allocating those resources as we move from three agencies to one agency. I am satisfied that the Fair Work Agency wi…”

“I was on this Committee when we looked into exactly this—Deliveroo, Uber Eats and Uber itself. All those companies have moved quite some way since the days when I was on this Committee and we were looking at outright exploitation of people who were on those apps. There has been some movement. Our economy is moving incr…”

“It did make commitments to me.”

“First, let me reinforce or strengthen your question by saying that it is JLR’s responsibility. It is a private company with a private supply chain, and I have done a great deal on behalf of this country to stand behind JLR and enable it to stand behind its supply chain.”

“As I said, we inherited a situation where our country and economy is locked in this cycle of low growth and high taxation. It has also had a long period in which we have not had a fundamental rethink of the way in which we regulate the economy and planning is undertaken, so some of these fundamentals of the environment…”

“I kind of addressed this in my frustration about the widening division that sometimes the media portrays here. Our manifesto commitment was to basic day one rights. We now need to consult to see what that looks like in practice. Our manifesto said that “we will engage widely with experts and stakeholders, including emp…”

“I have not decided yet, is the truth. I sat on that Committee and enjoyed seeing you over the table there, but I have not yet made a decision as to what is the best forum. As you will know, we have adapted a few of the forums over the last year and a half. In every iteration and adaptation I have seen, it has moved to …”

“I have constantly been worried, in all the actions that I have taken since day one in this job, which was when I was first briefed. The cyber-attack occurred just a couple of days before I took office, so I was briefed on it on day one, but I then needed to understand the extent of the challenge in order to build an ap…”

“Again, I do not know when we are going to start that, but it is in my inbox.”

“I want to be blunt with you: no, I cannot give you that date. As I said, there are real stand-out priorities that I have got to throw myself into to make them a reality; otherwise, some of the real strident priorities that we have been talking about, including the Employment Rights Bill, will simply start to drift. We …”

“First, let me take the opportunity to say directly to those companies that I see, I listen, and I am very aware of the stress in the supply chain for JLR, even now that production has resumed and is still scaling up—I am very aware of it. There have already been conversations this week from my Department trying to get …”

“You can imagine my priorities at the moment; let me be really clear about this. I have to get the legislation through, as it is not through yet. I have to get the consultations under way, reconciled, out there and delivered so that we can start moving forward with a modern economy and the modern relationships fit for t…”

“Nice try! But you know full well that I am not the arbiter of these conversations. These are decisions that employees, people working in workplaces and employers need to take among themselves. Let me take one step back and address this with a slightly more holistic view. When you read our plan “Make Work Pay”, you see …”

“Again, zero-hours contracts and how those are rolled out are, by definition of the legislation, to be subject to consultation. But as I said, the spirit of the “Make Work Pay” commitment and the legislation will be delivered. We will outlaw exploitative zero-hours contracts. Ambiguity needs to be ironed out of the legi…”

“The answer is yes, of course, I intend to implement the Bill in full, and carry on the herculean work of Mr Madders. In order to do so, I need to get it through ping-pong. As you know, the Bill has now cleared the House of Commons again. By now, after two rounds of ping-pong, nobody should be in any doubt about my inte…”

“Thank you; there is an awful lot in there. The first thing is, yes—and this comes from the Prime Minister down, not just from me—the importance of adhering to the spirit as well as the policies of the industrial strategy is something that the Prime Minister reinforces at Cabinet. Regarding Budget conversations, I am no…”

“Implementing it—getting cracking with it. You have already seen some of the responses that we have had, with the regulatory reforms and others. You have seen how we have responded and put the industrial strategy into action, including the JLR response. The response to and support for the automotive sector was laid out …”

“Brace yourself!”

“I am happy to do so. Mr Maynard used the word “playing”. I can assure you we are not playing at anything here. These are issues we take extraordinarily seriously. We are not playing in area of this, particularly not with time. If there are issues that I need to be aware of, I will. I consider myself referred in the man…”

“That is certainly not the case now. In fact, we are looking quite carefully at the work. What I do not want to do is to overburden the Regulatory Innovation Office from the outset. It is doing incredible work and upscaling its work rapidly. David is doing a phenomenal job. It started with a pilot in four areas, which w…”