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Manufacturing Industries

Asked by Lee AndersonReform UKDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 1 April 2025UIN 38122

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to re-shore manufacturing.

Answered by Sarah Jones

Reshoring, alongside progressive key trade agreements, will be important of our national resilience, and we are determined to make the UK a prime location for globally competitive manufacturing.

The Industrial Strategy this spring will set out an ambitious long-term vision for UK manufacturing competitiveness and will detail how we intend to boost R&D, skills, and fast track adoption of new manufacturing technologies here in the UK.

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