Question follow-through · 120446
Chemicals: Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the chemical industry.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the chemical industry.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2026
Answer published
The chemicals sector underpins almost all other manufacturing in the UK and is fundamental to maximising growth. It also helps stimulates productivity across the economy to drive forward the government’s growth mission. This is reflected by the identifica...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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