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Semiconductor Advisory Panel: Northern Ireland

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Semiconductor Advisory Panel will meet in Northern Ireland in 2025.

answeredDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology

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Answering body: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Tabled: 11 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 16 Dec 2024
Answer: 16 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether the Semiconductor Advisory Panel will meet in Northern Ireland in 2025.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2024
Answer published
The government recognises that semiconductors are a UK wide strength, with clusters spread across the country, including in Northern Ireland. It is critical that the Semiconductor Advisory Panel can speak to all geographies of the semiconductor community....

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