Question follow-through · 98085
Batteries: Manufacturing Industries
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a programme to subsidise domestic electric battery manufacturing.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a programme to subsidise domestic electric battery manufacturing.
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
The battery sector currently employs 10,500 people across the UK and is one of the frontier industries highlighted in our Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan.The Government recently made the UK's largest single commitment to battery R&D and commerciali...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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