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Question follow-through · 68453

Manufacturing Industries: West Midlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy 2025 published on 23 June 2025, what plans he has to develop clusters of excellence in the West Midlands.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body
Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
16 Jul 2025
Target answer date
21 Jul 2025
Answer
21 Jul 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy 2025 published on 23 June 2025, what plans he has to develop clusters of excellence in the West Midlands.

  2. 21 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 21 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The Industrial Strategy highlights the West Midlands' strengths in all eight Industrial Strategy growth-driving sectors.The Strategy's UK-wide measures will make it quicker and easier to do business, including in the West Midlands. Specific Industrial Str...

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