Question follow-through · 26595
Chemicals
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support the chemical sector.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 24 Feb 2025 · 28 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support the chemical sector.
29 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Feb 2025
Answer published
The chemicals sector underpins almost all manufacturing in the UK and is fundamental to maximising growth and productivity across the economy to drive forward the government’s missions, including delivering growth for all. Reforms are underway to address ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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