Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 72050

Manufacturing Industries: Rural Areas

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 12 September 2025

Question

Sarah Gibson

Liberal DemocratChippenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Answer of 23 July 2025 to Question 62821 on Manufacturing Industries: Rural Areas, what the evidential basis is for the conclusion that investment in city-based advanced manufactu

Answer

Blair McDougall
Everywhere will benefit from the Industrial Strategy’s national policy offer – there are clusters of the growth driving sectors across the whole country including in rural areas and our package addresses the biggest constraints to growth highlighted by th...

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