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Foreign Investment in UK: India

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that inward investment from India contributes to the UK’s net zero targets.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body
Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
13 Oct 2025
Target answer date
15 Oct 2025
Answer
21 Oct 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that inward investment from India contributes to the UK’s net zero targets.

  2. 15 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 21 Oct 2025

    Answer published

    DBT’s recently published Industrial Strategy sets out the Government’s ambition to be a global leader in clean energy by 2035, doubling investment levels across our frontier clean energy industries to over £30billion per year and creating good jobs across...

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