Question follow-through · 75351
Robotics: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what progress he has made on accelerating the uptake of robotics via expanding the Made Smarter Adoption progr
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, CP 1337, published on 23 June 2025, what progress he has made on accelerating the uptake of robotics via expanding the Made Smarter Adoption progr
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
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16 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to accelerating the adoption of robotics and other advanced technologies among SME manufacturers by expanding the Made Smarter Adoption programme and establishing the Robotics Adoption Hubs.Over the past three years of the prog...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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