James Cleverly highlights Government success at reducing the gap between taxes that should be collected and the taxes that are collected which has resulted in an additional £160 billion of tax revenue since 2010 and applauds efforts to ensure international business people and non-domiciles remain in the UK post-Brexit.
James served as Shadow Home Secretary from the General Election in July 2024 until November 2024. James had served as Home Secretary since November 2023. Prior to that, he had served as Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs since September 2022, having previously served as Secretary of State for Education, Minister for Europe at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), Minister for Middle East and North Africa and as joint Minister of State in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development.
Speaking in Prime Minister's Questions, James Cleverly highlights new local training facilities in the manufacturing sector and calls on the Government to support both public and private sector trainers to help improve productivity.
James Cleverly backs the Nuclear Safeguards Bill which will ensure that the UK honours its commitment to the International Atomic Energy Agency to set up a domestic nuclear safeguarding regime when we leave the EU and by extension, Euratom.
James Cleverly, who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group on trade out of poverty, calls on the Commonwealth secretariat to include on next year's Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting opportunities for the Commonwealth to help developing nations to trade out of poverty.