Spaceflight: Finance

(asked on 16th May 2018) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the timetable is for sites to be informed whether they have been successful in securing a grant towards development as a spaceport.


Answered by
Sam Gyimah Portrait
Sam Gyimah
This question was answered on 21st May 2018

Our Industrial Strategy recognises the role of new markets like space launch in driving growth across the UK. The Government is delivering a major programme to enable companies to offer small satellite launch and sub-orbital spaceflight from UK spaceports

We have considered 26 proposals for grant funding and expect to make an announcement on the results of this process shortly.

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