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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 16 November 2017 to Question 112764, on business, which sectors have indicated an interest in developing a Sector Deal referred to in that Answer; and when he plans to sign deals with each such sector.

Since the publication of our Green Paper, a large number of industries have signalled their interest in Sector Deals and we have been working with many of them in recent months.

We will continue to engage all those sectors that have submitted expressions of interest over the months ahead.