Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 104368

Skilled Workers: Mining

Tabled: 8 January 2026
Answered: 15 January 2026

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UKAshfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to bring high skilled jobs to former coalfield areas.

Answer

Blair McDougall
The Government is committed to revitalising former coalfield areas by driving local growth and creating high-skilled, long-term employment through targeted industrial and regional strategies. In the Industrial Strategy we announced £1.2 billion of additio...

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