Manufacturing Industries: Employment

(asked on 11th July 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 steps his Department is taking to support manufacturing jobs in (a) Ellesmere Port and Neston constituency, (b) the North West and (c) the UK.


This question was answered on 30th July 2018

We are committed to making the UK the best place in Europe to own and grow a manufacturing business. Through our Industrial Strategy, we will make sure that we are using all the tools we have to stimulate growth in places such as the North West. That means using our record investments in infrastructure to unlock growth in every part of the country; using the major new investment in research to support innovative manufacturing businesses across the country; and encouraging inward investment into the parts of the country where we need to get growth going faster. We are also cutting business taxes and slashing red tape.

My rt. hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer recently announced £20m of new funding in May for a “Made Smarter” pilot in the North West. Working with the five North West Growth Hubs, it will engage with 3000 manufacturing SMEs to adopt and exploit digital technology to increase their productivity

Over the past few years, we have invested over £1.5 billion through the Local Growth Fund in the North West for projects to boost local economies. We will invest £201.1m of this in Cheshire & Warrington creating up to 12,000 jobs. This will support projects such as the Ellesmere Port and Chester Campus, and the Thornton Energy Centre in your constituency. . The Regional Growth Fund that supports eligible projects and programmes raising private sector investment to create economic growth and lasting employment, has, since its launch in 2010, resulted in over 47,000 jobs being contracted, of which 23,752 are in manufacturing

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