Question follow-through · 29436

Manufacturing Industries

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how his Department intends to define the subsectors within Advanced Manufacturing in the forthcoming Industrial Strategy.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
10 Feb 2025
Answer
13 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how his Department intends to define the subsectors within Advanced Manufacturing in the forthcoming Industrial Strategy.

  2. 10 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 13 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The Government committed in the Industrial Strategy Green Paper – Invest 2035 to identify subsectors within Advanced Manufacturing that meet our objectives and for which there is evidence that policy can address barriers to growth. This includes considera...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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