Question follow-through · 64303
Chemicals: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish his Department's strategy for (a) the chemicals industry and (b) chemicals management.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will publish his Department's strategy for (a) the chemicals industry and (b) chemicals management.
3 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Chemicals industry is noted as a key foundational sector within the Industrial Strategy which helps underpin almost all other manufacturing sectors, including priority sectors such as Advanced Manufacturing. Delivery of a Chemicals Strategy to establi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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