Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans he has to support business investment and growth in the industries identified in the Government’s Modern Industrial Strategy over the next ten years.

Our modern Industrial Strategy is a 10-year plan to back our strengths and realise Britain’s potential. It is about creating a connected, high-skilled, economically growing country, where opportunity, skills and wealth are spread fairly, and where every person and every business has the chance to flourish.

Alongside sector plans containing interventions for each of the growth-driving sectors, we are making it quicker and easier to start and scale a business and making it more profitable to invest in Britain. The Industrial Strategy delivers on the biggest asks from businesses, from expanding access to finance, supporting skills and access to talent, to supporting cheaper energy over the long term.