Policy paper

BIS manufacturing summit 2014

Summarises the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills fourth manufacturing summit, held on 19 June 2014.

• From: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
• Published: 6 August 2014

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

BIS manufacturing summit 2014: key summary

Ref: BIS/14/P202

PDF, 147 KB, 2 pages

Details

On 19 June over 200 delegates gathered at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton, Wirral for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) fourth manufacturing summit. The Deputy Prime Minister and Business Secretary Vince Cable gave the main speeches. Michael Fallon took part in the panel discussion and closed the day.

The event again provided stakeholders across the manufacturing industry with the opportunity to engage with ministers and take part in a programme concentrating on some of the sector’s main challenges and issues including:

• skills
• energy
• supply chains
• influencing young people

See also the summary of the third BIS manufacturing summit 2013.

Published 6 August 2014