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

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to commemorate the women who worked at the Chilwell and other shell filling factories during the First World War.

In the last Parliament, The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy worked with the All Party Parliamentary Group on Recognition for Munitions Workers to explore ways to ensure that the collective efforts of all those who worked in munitions factories were not forgotten. This included several positive steps such as the march past of former munitions workers in the Remembrance Sunday parade in 2012. While the All Party Parliamentary Group is no longer active, my Department is continuing to work with campaigners to establish how the valiant collective effort of former munitions workers could be recognised.

BEIS has no plans for any specific local commemoration which are best determined at a local level.