Question follow-through · 10031
Capital Investment: Thurrock
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to encourage companies to invest in Thurrock.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 18 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 6 Nov 2024 · 19 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to encourage companies to invest in Thurrock.
22 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Nov 2024
Answer published
Growth is the government’s central economic mission and we are currently developing an Industrial Strategy which aims to drive growth across the UK through investment in key sectors and regions.DBT looks to encourage investment across the UK and works clo...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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