Question follow-through · 67683
Environment Protection: Investment Zones
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with local authorities on supporting the development of green innovation investment zones.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 14 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 22 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what discussions he has had with local authorities on supporting the development of green innovation investment zones.
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Jul 2025
Answer published
As set out in the Clean Energy Industries Sector Plan, part of the Industrial Strategy, the department is launching a new Industrial Strategy Zones Net Zero Network, which will support collaboration between partners in Industrial Strategy Zones such as In...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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