Question follow-through · 122951
Chemicals: Industry
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support chemical industry and employment levels in that industry.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 23 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 26 Mar 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support chemical industry and employment levels in that industry.
25 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Mar 2026
Answer published
The chemicals sector underpins almost all other manufacturing in the UK and is fundamental to maximising growth. It helps stimulate productivity across the economy to drive forward the government’s growth mission. This is why chemicals was identified as a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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