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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment the Government has made of how its industrial strategy will work in tandem with regional devolution deals.

The Government is committed to ensuring that all areas of the UK succeed. Today we will be publishing our new Industrial Strategy, which will set out how we will drive economic and productivity growth across the country, as well as how we will work with places to create successful local industrial strategies. Local industrial strategies will identify local strengths, future opportunities and the action needed in a particular area to boost productivity, earning power and competitiveness.

As set out in the Manifesto, Mayoral Combined Authorities will lead on the development of local industrial strategies. For example, in the budget we confirmed we will work in partnership with the Greater Manchester and West Midlands Mayoral Combined Authorities to develop local industrial strategies for their areas. And in the Government’s overarching vision for the Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge Corridor, we invited the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mayoral Combined Authority along with the Corridor’s LEPs to begin the development of ambitious local industrial strategies.