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Foreign Investment in UK

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Invest 2035: The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, published in October 2024, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of economic perfo

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Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
16 Dec 2024
Answer
16 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 11 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Invest 2035: The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, published in October 2024, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of economic perfo

  2. 16 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 16 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The methodology for determining the eight growth-driving sectors is outlined in the Invest 2035 Green Paper. This included assessing historic trends since 2019-20, such as gross value added and productivity, at Standard Industrial Classification-2 level w...

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