Question follow-through · 29293
Companies and Industry: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a strategic industry register to document key industries and companies of national significance.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 5 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 17 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a strategic industry register to document key industries and companies of national significance.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Feb 2025
Answer published
The modern Industrial Strategy focuses on eight growth-driving sectors: Advanced Manufacturing, Clean Energy Industries, Creative Industries, Defense, Digital and Technologies, Financial Services, Life Sciences, and Professional and Business Services.For ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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