Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what recent progress the Supply Chain Advisory Group and Industry Taskforce has made on its work.

The resilience of UK supply chains remains a key priority for the Government. Following Sir Dave Lewis' final recommendations at the end of last year, work has focused on ensuring that Government:

• continues to build and embed departmental capability and collaboration on supply chains policy,

• builds stronger capability to horizon scan, spot risks early, and collate and utilise data to understand supply chains issues, and works with industry to resolve them, and

• considers how best to optimise existing infrastructure capacity and improve cross-modal connectivity.