Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 88008

Industry

Tabled: 4 November 2025
Answered: 11 November 2025

Question

Blake Stephenson

ConservativeMid Bedfordshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will publish the sectoral analysis his Department undertook before selecting the IS-8 sectors in the Modern Industrial Strategy, published on 23 June 2025.

Answer

Blair McDougall
The methodology for selecting the IS-8 sectors has already been published.The Invest 2035 Green Paper (published on GOV.UK in October 2024) identified 8 high-level ‘growth driving’ sectors (the IS-8): Advanced Manufacturing, Clean Energy Industries, Creat...

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