Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask His Majesty's Government what help they are providing to the UK space industry; in particular, in regards to space launches.
We are committed to growing the UK space sector more broadly and deliver our National Space Strategy ambitions, including by recently investing £1.59 billion in European Space Agency (ESA) programmes. BEIS and MoD are providing more than £8bn over the next decade.
This includes the £50 million available to grow new UK markets for small satellite launch and sub-orbital spaceflight.
This includes: