Question to the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, what assessment has been made of the potential risk to regional industrial clusters of supply chain coercion.

The recently established Supply Chain Centre is made up of policy and analytical experts with the knowledge and insight to tackle these challenges, including through analysing risks linked to specific goods, suppliers and places. This includes use of the world leading Global Supply Chains Intelligence Programme (GSCIP) and working with colleagues across HMG, including preparing our trade defence toolkit to better protect our security against a burgeoning range of harms.