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Question for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

UIN 214589, tabled on 17 November 2014

Question

Bob Stewart
Conservative
Beckenham
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, if the Government will support the creation of a UK space agency.

Answer

Greg Clark
Conservative
Tunbridge Wells
Commons

Answered on

24 November 2014

The UK Space Agency was created in April 2011 as one of the recommendations of the 2010 Space Innovation and Growth Strategy. The Agency's positive impact on the space sector's growth was welcomed by the House of Commons' Select Committee on Science and Technology in 2013.

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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills