Freeports and Special Economic Zones: Job Creation
Commons · Question 59850 · Tabled 13 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 23 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Manuela Perteghella
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the target number of jobs was for UK (a) freeports and (b) special economic zones; and how many jobs UK (i) freeports and (ii) special economic zones have delivered to date.
Answer
Answered by Alex Norris, 23 Jun 2025
As policies developed in partnership with local partners, MHCLG has not set specific targets for job creation in Freeports, nor in Investment Zones, its other major economic zone policy.However, Freeports have set out the economic impacts they expect to d...