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Industrial strategy – progress update on UK government and industry partnership

Published on 6 June 2014

The UK government has published the industrial strategy progress report, which highlights the achievements, latest activities and future priorities of the industrial strategy.

The progress report provides a timely update on the eleven sectors:

  • Aerospace
  • Agricultural Technologies
  • Automotive
  • Construction
  • Information Economy
  • International Education
  • Life Sciences
  • Nuclear
  • Offshore Wind
  • Oil and Gas
  • Professional and Business Services

As well as an update on the five cross cutting themes:

  • Sector Partnerships: Providing support for all sectors to help increase global competitiveness, support innovation and maximise export potential.
  • Technologies: Supporting the development and commercialisation of technologies where theUKhas the research expertise and business capability to become a world leader.
  • Skills: Working to deliver the skills that employers need, giving businesses more say over how government funding for skills is spent.
  • Access to finance: Helping businesses get the finance they need to invest in people and equipment and to grow.
  • Procurement: DevelopingUKsupply chains and creating a simpler and more transparent public sector procurement system

Help spread the word

  • Follow@bisgovuk and @bispressoffice for mentions/retweets/discussion on Twitter
  • Remember to use the Industrial Strategy hashtag in your tweets:#IndustrialStrategy.We’ll also be using#BuildingBritainwhen talking about construction and infrastructure projects which are creating jobs and growth forBritain
  • Infographics for all the sectors are available on our Flickr channel: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bisgovuk/sets/72157633021669313/
  • We’ve created an online timeline to show all the work that’s been done since the launch of the Industrial Strategy http://bit.ly/1nsb9E6
  • There are videos on our Youtube channel of the Sector Council Leads talking about the progress made in their sectors since the launch of the Strategy http://bit.ly/1jKouVQ