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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what steps he is taking to attract more manufacturing jobs to the UK.

The Government is creating a highly competitive business environment that makes the UK an attractive location for new manufacturing investment and drives strong productivity growth and export success. We have invested £300m over five years in the High Value Manufacturing Catapult to support the commercialisation of the innovation and new technologies that will be crucial to the future of manufacturing in the UK.

UK Trade and Investment works to attract foreign manufacturing companies to set up and grow in the UK. The recently published EY report (EY’s Attractiveness Survey 2016, UK) put the UK ahead of Germany for a second year running in terms of attracting manufacturing related foreign direct investment.