Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: East of England

(asked on 7th September 2022) - 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 assessment he has made of the effect on his policies of trends in the level of population growth in the East of England; and if he will make a statement.


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Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 22nd September 2022

The Government recognises that the East of England is a fast growing and diverse region. The Department considers a range of factors when making policy decisions and, where population is a factor in those decisions, the latest official population statistics are used.

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