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Innovation: Stoke on Trent

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Question for Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

UIN 901953, tabled on 19 December 2024

Question

Dr Allison Gardner
Labour
Stoke-on-Trent South
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to increase levels of innovation in Stoke-on-Trent.

Answer

Feryal Clark
Labour
Enfield North
Commons

Answered on

8 January 2025

I set out in my previous answer to the Honourable Member for Stafford, that we are investing £29.8 million in research and innovation projects in Staffordshire.

For example, through the Strength in Places Fund, we are investing £18 million in the Midlands Advanced Ceramics for Industry 4.0 project. This is a consortium of researchers, manufacturers and end-users led by the Lucideon Group, which has sites in Stoke-on-Trent and Stone. It will develop streamlined processes for proving and bringing new advanced ceramics technologies to market faster, with less energy usage and lower carbon emissions.

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