Speeches by Kyle.

“I will answer the question this way. With the new Prime Minister, there are things that we can do that will be highly growth orientated and that will deliver the fairness across our economy that both he and I aspire to. Those are the sorts of conversations that I will be having. Ultimately, we live with finite resource…”

“I am not going to go into those things. Tempting though you are, I will not negotiate with the Treasury or No. 10 in public.”

“I do not have permission to think about what it would look like if I was to lower energy costs for everyone, because I am dealing with finite resources. That is the world that all of us are living in at this moment in time. I can tell you that I have never had a meeting with Cabinet colleagues who do not accept and sha…”

“No, I am trying my absolute best not to deflect on any of these and to be really honest about what it is like doing my job. Of course, if I could lower energy costs for every manufacturing business, I would do it in a heartbeat.”

“It is going well. I love the fact that you have read the manifesto so well.”

“Those are decisions the Chancellor must make. You need to acknowledge the subsequent challenges that are posed from doing so. I am going to advocate for lowering costs in any way that I possibly can, but there is always a quid pro quo in these sorts of trade-offs, and someone will always be paying, unless we get a grow…”

“All I can assure you is that we are pushing as fast as we can.”

“We have made progress. In both of the jobs I have had—in DSIT and in this job—this has become a priority for me. We are spending more and more money centrally on procurement. You have given the figures. We must make sure that we, in an appropriate way, spend as much as we can of it in Britain, but also break open and g…”

“Procurements have cycles, so a lot of the procurement contracts that we will have as a Department would have been procured by the previous Government. These contracts are three to five years, very often.”

“No, we will hit it.”

“I do not know the nature of the procurement. I will be speaking to Bridget to see whether it was a strategic plan and management that led to that, and I will be learning from it. I want to get there.”

“I cannot answer that question for the obvious reason that I am not sure what the nature of Department for Education’s procurement is, what the difference is with the services and the products that it procures, the scale that it procures and how devolved the decisions are.”

“I have not been able to find a legislative vehicle for it yet, but I will do as soon as I can.”

“I can give reassurance on that. When I launched the late payments legislation, in front of whooping small businesses that have been calling for this for so long, I reassured them that it will be implemented as rapidly as possible and that there will be no watering down, but also that nothing should be stopping business…”

“I did not use tariffs or nationalisation as a first resort. These are things I am doing because we now, as a country, need to have resilience of supply of foundational materials into our supply chain, steel being critical for defence and lots of other parts of our economy. I did so because of oversupply from certain pa…”

“It is my belief that British Steel can and will become a sustainable operation. As I said, the key to that is getting the right people in place and getting us to that point. We still have a few steps to go before doing that. It is my view, and the view of my Department, that those conditions can be created for British …”

“Tariffs will be there for as long as they are needed, but we are working very carefully with our global partners on the global forces that are necessitating tariffs and more measures in the first place. The EU is a very similar landscape for steel and overall economy as the UK, and America similarly, and all are taking…”

“I am not applying tariffs unless it is to protect materials that are made in the UK. Some 78% of the steel that comes into the UK will still be outside the tariff regime.”

“I am not able to talk about processes that may or may not be under way within Government at the moment. You will understand that collective responsibility requires me to keep my mouth shut until something is out the door. What I can tell you is that, as you know, I have undertaken an extensive period of listening to th…”

“I am not aware it has been asked for an interim payment. Because we are now talking about a relatively short space of time, I am focused on what the final settlement could look like. That is why I am very keen to get Sir Wyn’s report as soon as I possibly can.”