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Job Creation

Asked by Dame Harriett BaldwinConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 30 June 2025UIN 59375

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Record-breaking International Investment Summit secures £63 billion and nearly 38,000 jobs for the UK, published on 14 October 2024, what the regional breakdown is of those jobs.

Answered by Sarah Jones

The figures released as part of the International Investment Summit last autumn are aggregate values of investment plans from several multi-national enterprises. The Office for Investment does not hold information from companies on the regional breakdown of their job proposals in their investment plans.

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