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Skilled Workers: Mining

Commons · Question 104368 · Tabled 8 Jan 2026 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 15 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

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

Answered by Blair McDougall, 15 Jan 2026

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...