Economic Growth - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:10 pm on 16 September 2025.

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Photo of Lord Livermore Lord Livermore The Financial Secretary to the Treasury 3:10, 16 September 2025

My noble friend is absolutely correct to say that we need a different approach to the economy from the one we had over the past 14 years, and he will have seen how we are delivering on that. He will know that living standards are forecast to grow over four times faster than in the previous Parliament, and real wages have already grown by more in the first 10 months of this Government than in the first 10 years of the previous Conservative Government. He will know that, in answer to the question opposite, GDP per capita is forecast to rise by 5.6% over this Parliament. Under the last Labour Government, productivity growth was the second fastest in the G7. Under the Tories, it fell to the second slowest in the G7.