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Industrial Strategy

Status: Open Opened: 28 Jan 2025 24 recommendations 8 conclusions 1 report

Our first industrial strategy inquiry will take a comprehensive look at the Government's proposals for a 10-year modern industrial strategy, as set out in Invest 2035. We will scrutinise the proposals in the Government’s Green Paper, and its forthcoming White Paper, and make recommendations for the Comprehensive Spending Review.

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
7th Report - Industrial Strategy HC 727 6 Jun 2025 32 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

2 items
29 Recommendation 7th Report - Industrial Strategy Rejected

Expand the Regulatory Innovation Office to resolve business regulatory conflicts and ensure coherence.

We recommend that the Regulatory Innovation Office should be expanded to act as a clearing house for regulatory conflicts and give businesses a place to report conflicting regulations. We recommend that this expanded Regulatory Innovation Office sits within the Cabinet Office and is resourced appropriately to carry out this expanded …

Government response. The government stated there are no current plans to change the department or scope of the Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO), directly rejecting the recommendation to expand its role, relocate it to the Cabinet Office, and enhance ministerial oversight.
Department for Business and Trade
32 Recommendation 7th Report - Industrial Strategy Rejected

Require Prime Minister to chair quarterly Growth Mission Board meetings and review strategy progress.

Finally, it is crucial that the industrial strategy and the wider growth mission has clear support from the Prime Minister. As such we recommend that the Prime Minister chairs quarterly sessions of the Growth Mission Board and that progress on the industrial strategy is reviewed at each such meeting that …

Government response. The government rejects the recommendation for the Prime Minister to chair quarterly sessions of the Growth Mission Board, stating that the Chancellor chairs the Board, and the Prime Minister engages with the Growth Mission via other means.
Department for Business and Trade

Oral evidence sessions

8 sessions
Date Witnesses
28 Apr 2026 Adam Berman · Energy UK, Arjan Geveke · Energy Intensive Users Group, Dame Clare Barclay DBE · Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, David Whitehouse · OEUK, Kate Bell · Trade Union Congress (TUC), Leonie Lambert · Department for Business and Trade, Lisa Brankin · Ford of Britain and Ireland, Matthew Ogg · Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), Murray Paul · Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), Rick Jennings · Tata Chemicals Europe Group, Rt Hon Greg Clark · Industrial Strategy Advisory Council View ↗
13 May 2025 Andrew Forzani · Cabinet Office, Andrew New · NHS Supply Chain, Rt Hon Jonathan Reynolds MP · Department for Business and Trade, The Baroness Gustafsson CBE · HM Treasury, The Lord Livermore · HM Treasury, The Rt Hon. the Baroness Smith of Malvern · Department of Education View ↗
29 Apr 2025 Andy Burnham · Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Howard Dawber · Greater London Authority, John Flint · National Wealth Fund, John Godfrey · TheCityUK, Kim McGuinness · North East Combined Authority, Kitty Ussher · Barclays, Louis Taylor · British Business Bank, Matt Clifford CBE · Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA), Mike Biddle · Innovate UK (UKRI), Professor Ben Morgan · Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, Stian Westlake · Economic and Social Research Council, UKRI View ↗
22 Apr 2025 Alan Johnson · Nissan AMEIO, Alistair McGirr · SSE, Brian Holliday · Siemens UK, Louise Kingham CBE · BP plc, Markus Grüneisl · BMW (UK) Manufacturing Ltd, Mike Hawes · Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), Professor David Greenwood · Warwick Manufacturing Group, Rob Salter-Church · National Grid Electricity Transmission, Rob Salter-Church · National Grid, Stephen Phipson CBE · Make UK, Steve Turner · Unite the Union View ↗
26 Mar 2025 Barnaby Kistruck OBE · Ministry of Defence, Neil Johnson · Department for Business and Trade, Rt Hon Maria Eagle MP · Ministry of Defence, Sarah Jones MP · Department for Business and Trade View ↗
18 Mar 2025 Alasdair McDiarmid · Community, Allan Bell · British Steel, Chris Daniels · Flare Bright, Jon Bolton · Materials Processing Institute, Mr Adam Forgiel-Jenkins · BAE Systems, Oriel Petry · Airbus, Oriel Petry · Airbus UK, Professor John Howie MBE · Babcock International, Rajesh Nair · Tata Steel UK, Shaun Grady · AstraZeneca UK, Tom Keith-Roach · AstraZeneca plc View ↗
4 Mar 2025 Anthony Walker · Tech UK, Audrey Yvernault · GSK, Miles Celic · TheCityUK, Paul Morris · Vodafone, Peter Stephens · ARM, Ramon Kaur · EY UK, Sir John Bell · Ellison Institute of Technology, Stevan Randjelovic · WPP, Steve Bates OBE · The BioIndustry Association, Steve Brierley · Riverlane View ↗
11 Feb 2025 Clare Barclay · Industrial Strategy Advisory Council, Jordan Cummins · Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Kate Bell · Trade Union Congress (TUC), Professor Diane Coyle · University of Cambridge, Professor Mariana Mazzucato · University College London (UCL), Sir Charlie Mayfield · Be the Business View ↗

Correspondence

11 letters
DateDirectionTitle
15 Apr 2026 To cttee Letter from the Secretary of State relating to an announcement on the Governmen…
8 Sep 2025 To cttee Letter from the Secretaries of State for Business and Trade and for Defence rel…
15 Jul 2025 To cttee Letter from the Minister for Industry relating to Government support for the UK…
1 Jul 2025 To cttee Letter from the Secretary of State relating to the UK's Modern Industrial Strat…
19 Jun 2025 From cttee Letter to the Secretaries of State for Business and Trade and Defence relating …
10 Jun 2025 To cttee Letter from NHS Supply Chain relating to the Industrial Strategy Inquiry, 4 Jun…
20 May 2025 To cttee Letter from BP to BTC and ESNZ committees relating to questions from evidence s…
29 Apr 2025 From cttee Letter to the Secretary of State relating to the Government response to the US …
22 Apr 2025 To cttee Letter from AstraZeneca relating to Industrial strategy and life sciences, 28 M…
1 Apr 2025 From cttee Letter to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade relating to a plan for …
25 Mar 2025 To cttee Letter from GSK relating to life sciences and industrial strategy, 14 March 2025