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Manufacturing Industries: West Midlands

Commons · Question 68453 · Tabled 16 Jul 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 21 Jul 2025

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Asked by Wendy Morton

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy 2025 published on 23 June 2025, what plans he has to develop clusters of excellence in the West Midlands.

Answer

Answered by Sarah Jones, 21 Jul 2025

The Industrial Strategy highlights the West Midlands' strengths in all eight Industrial Strategy growth-driving sectors.The Strategy's UK-wide measures will make it quicker and easier to do business, including in the West Midlands. Specific Industrial Str...