Question follow-through · 7770
Manufacturing Industries: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support manufacturing in the UK.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2024 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support manufacturing in the UK.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2024
Answer published
This government wants to drive manufacturing growth. Manufacturing makes an important contribution to private capital, R&D, and exports, which leads to higher productivity, more investment and more jobs.Building on existing support to industry, govern...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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