Question follow-through · 72050
Manufacturing Industries: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Answer of 23 July 2025 to Question 62821 on Manufacturing Industries: Rural Areas, what the evidential basis is for the conclusion that investment in city-based advanced manufactu
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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, with reference to the Answer of 23 July 2025 to Question 62821 on Manufacturing Industries: Rural Areas, what the evidential basis is for the conclusion that investment in city-based advanced manufactu
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2025
Answer published
Everywhere will benefit from the Industrial Strategy’s national policy offer – there are clusters of the growth driving sectors across the whole country including in rural areas and our package addresses the biggest constraints to growth highlighted by th...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Fuel Cells and Hydrogen: Exports
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans his Department has to support exports of UK-manufactured hydrogen and fuel cell technologies to international markets.
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen: Manufacturing Industries
16 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had discussions with industry stakeholders on opportunities to grow UK-based manufacturing of hydrogen and fuel cell equipment by 2030.
Hydrogen: Manufacturing Industries
26 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to encourage investment into the UK hydrogen technology manufacturing sector.