Question follow-through · 23096
Broadband: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what role rural digital connectivity will have in the industrial strategy.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what role rural digital connectivity will have in the industrial strategy.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
As set out in the Industrial Strategy Green Paper, access to fast, secure, and reliable digital connectivity is essential to enabling economic growth and to reap the transformational productivity benefits of digitalisation and the adoption of AI. Improvem...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Trade Agreements: Gulf States
11 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions he has had with relevant stakeholders on the potential trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council and the potential merits of requiring imported chicken meat to meet the United