Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what representations he has received from representatives of business sectors on sector deals after the UK leaves the EU; and if he will make a statement.

As part of the Industrial Strategy Green Paper, the Government proposed sector deals and issued an open challenge to all sectors across the economy to produce proposals to enable them to grow, invest and reach their potential through ‘sector deals’.

Stakeholders have warmly welcomed our proposals and over 50 sectors have signalled their interest in developing a Sector Deal. The Government has been working with many of them in recent months.