Question follow-through · 119878
Manufacturing Industries: Investment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help encourage investment in high-technology manufacturing.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help encourage investment in high-technology manufacturing.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2026
Answer published
Our Industrial Strategy and Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan published last June set out how we are supporting UK manufacturers to grow and thrive. Commitments include up to £4.3 billion funding for frontier manufacturing sectors through programmes such...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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