Question follow-through · 34958
Midlands Engine
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he is taking steps with the Midlands Engine to support regional (a) investment and (b) private sector collaboration.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 11 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he is taking steps with the Midlands Engine to support regional (a) investment and (b) private sector collaboration.
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Mar 2025
Answer published
Midlands Engine have undertaken a range of valuable work and have supported collaboration on shared growth opportunities. Moving forward, the government intends to support Mayors in collaborating at pan-regional level and creating convening bodies whose p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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