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Foreign Investment in UK: North of England

Asked by Harpreet UppalLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 8 May 2025UIN 49239

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent steps his Department has taken to help attract green inward investment to (a) Huddersfield and (b) other northern towns.

Answered by Sarah Jones

Green investment is a cornerstone of the UKs drive for growth, as set out in the Industrial Strategy Green Paper. For Huddersfield and towns across the North, we actively showcase investment opportunities to potential investors, and provide account management services for investors already in the region to help them build and scale. This is demonstrated by our work to support the £50m investment of Syngenta in Huddersfield, to build technology that will improve crop yields, announced in March this year.

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