Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether she has made an estimate of the number of gigafactories that will be established in the UK by 2030.

We continue to work with industry via the Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF) to support the creation of an internationally competitive electric vehicle supply chain in the UK, including gigafactories.

The Advanced Propulsion Centre forecasts that UK demand for EV battery manufacturing capacity is expected to reach 89 GWh per annum by 2030.

ATF funding has already helped secure key investments, including, Tata’s recent announcement that they will be investing over £4 billion to build a new gigafactory in the UK and the £1bn electric vehicle hub in Sunderland in partnership between Nissan and Envision AESC.