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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to support the UK Space Agency.

Last September, BEIS and MoD jointly published the UK’s first ever National Space Strategy, which sets out the UK’s ambitions for our space sector. In order to meet these ambitions, the Department is working with the UK Space Agency to provide strategic direction and support programme delivery, as detailed in the published UKSA Corporate Plan. Government is investing £1.75 billion through the UK Space Agency over the course of this spending review to deliver transformative space programmes.