Question to the Department for Business and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to improve domestic manufacturing supply chains for the car industry.

The Government is supporting investment into the transformation of our supply chains through DRIVE35, a £4 billion programme to 2035 funding the R&D, commercial scale-up and industrialisation of zero emission vehicle manufacturing in the UK.

This in addition to wider interventions to improve competitiveness and attract investment across the sector, including up to £100m under DRIVE35 for two EV manufacturing clusters in the North-East and the West Midlands.

We have also established a Supply Chain Centre within DBT to improve data on risks and strengthen the resilience of critical manufacturing supply chains.