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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2022 to Question 119560 on Science: Regional Planning and Development, what plans he has to extend the biannual meetings with science ministers from the UK and devolved Administrations to regional leaders in England.

The Levelling Up White Paper announced that there will be a structured process of visits, at ministerial level, across the whole of the UK in the months following publication of this White Paper, to discuss how levelling up can be successfully achieved in that area and to gather feedback. I look forward to meeting with regional leaders in England and across the UK as part of this process.