Simon Harris: “Our ambition now is to build on that success and grow employment to 70,000 by 2030, with one in four of those jobs…”

For so many families, it has made the difference between continuing to rent and getting the keys to their own home.

For thousands of first-time buyers, this is a scheme that has helped to bridge the gap to home ownership by making it easier to secure the deposit required to buy or build.

But we cannot take that success for granted. Technology is transforming financial services, competition for investment is intensifying and the global environment is changing rapidly.

a warm and substantive engagement around a range of issues and we have agreed to meet next month at the G20 meeting of Finance Ministers in the US