Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 13 February 2025 to Question 29436 on Manufacturing Industries, whether food and drink manufacturing is a key advanced manufacturing sector.

The Industrial Strategy will focus on the sectors which offer the highest growth opportunity for the economy and business, including Advanced Manufacturing. The Government will prioritise subsectors within the broad sectors that meet our objectives and where there is evidence that policy can address barriers to growth.

The Industrial Strategy, alongside Sector Plans for the growth-driving sectors, will be published in Spring 2025, aligned with the multi-year Spending Review. These Sector Plans will set out the specific sub-sectors of focus, identify key barriers to growth, and describe how government and industry intend to achieve long-term growth for the sector.