Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 104368
Skilled Workers: Mining
Tabled: 8 January 2026
Answered: 15 January 2026
Question
Lee Anderson
Reform UK — Ashfield
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 McDougallThe 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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