Question follow-through · 70929
Manufacturing Industries: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support more women into the manufacturing industry.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 29 Aug 2025
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support more women into the manufacturing industry.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2025
Answer published
The UK Government is aware of the current underrepresentation of women in manufacturing and is committed to advancing diversity within the sector. In the recently published Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan we state our intent to improve the equality pro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Cooperatives: Government Assistance
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2025 to Question 58428 on Cooperatives: Government Assistance, when he plans to publish the call for evidence into co-operative growth.
Hospitality Industry and Retail Trade: Finance
6 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to financially support retail and hospitality businesses on the high street.