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Ports: Job Creation

Asked by Clive JonesLiberal DemocratDepartment for TransportTabled Answered 14 October 2024UIN 7091

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he is taking to increase job creation in ports.

Answered by Mike Kane

Our mission to drive growth in the economy will bring with it increasing trade in high-value goods, and our mission to become a clean energy superpower will boost jobs within and around ports engaged in helping to deliver offshore wind and other clean energy development. Investment in ports and supply chains has been identified as a priority area for the newly established National Wealth Fund (NWF), which has allocated £7.3 billion of additional capitalisation to the UK Infrastructure Bank.

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