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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of his Department's policies on the (a) life sciences, (b) space, (c) robotics, (d) artificial intelligence and (e) other industries.

Government policies on space are driven by the National Space Strategy. We are investing £1.75bn in the sector to support its growth over this spending review period. The annual Size and Health of the UK Space Sector report provides evidence of this growth.

By leveraging the UK Life Science ecosystem through our policies, we are addressing critical health challenges, creating highly skilled jobs and increasing inward investment.

The Government has provided policy and funding support for robotics, including the Robots for a Safer World Programme which invested £112m for research and development and leveraged over £500m in co-investment.