Question follow-through · 123135
Foreign Investment in UK: West Midlands
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to encourage foreign direct investment in the West Midlands.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 30 Mar 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to encourage foreign direct investment in the West Midlands.
26 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Department actively promotes FDI into the West Midlands through the Office for Investment (OfI), which works closely with the West Midlands Combined Authority and regional stakeholders to identify, shape, and market regional opportunities internationa...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Business: West Midlands
16 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps he has taken to encourage business investment in (a) Royal Sutton Coldfield and (b) the West Midlands.