Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Recommendation 1
Fifth Report - The semiconductor industry in the UK
Published 28 Nov 2022
Paragraph 52
Addressed to Department for Business and Trade
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The UK is an important part of global semiconductor supply chains, but it is reliant upon other countries. The UK alone will not have an end-to-end supply chain for semiconductors, but it has tradeable strengths. The Government should work more closely with allies in the EU and US, and elsewhere, to safeguard security of supply, both of finished products and of the materials needed for production in the UK. The Government should at the same time be working to represent the UK’s expertise and to entrench and expand the UK’s role in global semiconductor supply chains.
From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, Fifth Report - The semiconductor industry in the UK (HC 291), paragraph 52, 28 November 2022
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 25 May 2023 (deadline 28 January 2023).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The Government has published its National Semiconductor Strategy and sets out its response to the Committee's recommendations, committing to up to £1 billion over the next decade and to working with international partners.
- On funding, the Government says it is investing "up to £200 million" over the next two years and "up to £1 billion" over ten years, and that it will announce plans "by the Autumn" to support semiconductor manufacturing.
- On industry engagement, the Government "agrees" the approach must be industry-led and will formally launch a UK Semiconductor Advisory Panel at London Tech Week in June 2023.
- On supply chain resilience, it commits to publish resilience guidance, establish a government-industry forum and run a crisis and contingency planning exercise, and will evaluate future domestic manufacturing needs through research "reporting in the Autumn".
- On the Nexperia case, the Government says it "still cannot provide any further update" while judicial review proceedings are ongoing.