Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the (a) remit, (b) membership and (c) reporting requirements of the future sectors team as part of the industrial strategy will be.

The new Future Sectors Team will lead work to grow sectors that are developing and using the technologies and business models of the future, such as robotics and artificial intelligence. The team will be established in BEIS with progress reported as part of the Departmental Business Plan. A new independent Industrial Strategy Council will also develop measures to assess and evaluate our Industrial Strategy and make recommendations to the Government.