Callum Anderson MP: written questions
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Small Businesses: ApprenticesDepartment for EducationTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72286More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent estimate her Department has made of the average annual training cost per apprentice borne by small businesses in the personal services sector.
Answer: The department does not hold a breakdown of apprenticeships data for the personal services sector.The government offers a range of financial support to support small businesses across all sectors to take on apprentices. The government pays full training c...
Answered 9 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordAdvertising: VATTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72285More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of VAT treatment rules in the digital advertising market for UK-based small businesses.
Answer: UK VAT is charged on the domestic and cross-border supply of digital advertising services to UK businesses. The Government keeps the application and adequacy of the UK’s VAT regime under regular review.
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72284More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many businesses with fewer than 50 employees have accessed government-funded business support grants in the past 12 months in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
Answer: The Government has published its Small Business Plan (Backing your Business) in July 2025. We are delivering the most comprehensive package of support for SMEs in a generation. We have also committed to funding for the 41 Growth Hubs across England which ...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: RegulationTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72283More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to ensure compliance with employment and tax regulations among cash-based businesses operating on the high street.
Answer: HMRC is committed to ensuring that the tax system operates fairly and efficiently and creates a level playing field for all compliant businesses. Most businesses pay what they owe, but a minority fail to register or only declare a portion of their earning...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordHospitality Industry: VATTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72282More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent comparative assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of VAT differentials on the competitiveness of hospitality businesses in (a) Buckingham and Bletchley constituency and (b) their Eur
Answer: The Government recognises the significant contribution made by hospitality and tourism businesses to economic growth and social life in the UK. VAT is a broad-based tax on consumption, and the 20 per cent standard rate applies to most goods and services. ...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall BusinessesTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72281More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate her Department has made of the number of small businesses in (a) the UK and (b) Buckingham and Bletchley constituency that operate below the VAT registration threshold.
Answer: a) The total number of businesses in 2024 is estimated at 5.6 million (see Business population estimates 2024 - GOV.UK, detailed table 2). According to HMRC statistics, there were around 1.3 million business registered for VAT with turnover above the thre...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: ProcurementCabinet OfficeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72274More
Question: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, whether his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to set statutory targets for levels of SME participation in public sector procurement.
Answer: The Government is determined to ensure the £385 billion of public money spent on public procurement annually, delivers economic growth and supports small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The Government previously announced that all departments would s...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordPublic Sector: ProcurementDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72273More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to p.53 of the document entitled Backing your business, published on 31 July 2025, what steps his Department is taking to monitor the level of SME participation in public procurement.
Answer: The Department for Business and Trade monitors the level of SME participation in our procurement through contract award data via a live commercial dashboard which captures supplier type and specifically whether a supplier qualifies as an SME. DBT will pub...
Answered 5 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: ExportsDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72272More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what mechanisms his Department uses to evaluate the effectiveness of export support services for SMEs.
Answer: DBT offers a range of support for SME’s, with the recent Small Business Plan unlocking billions of pounds in finance to support businesses to invest and revitalising the High Street as a place to do business. The new online Business Growth Service will de...
Answered 16 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: Training and VacanciesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72271More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the document entitled Backing your business, published on 31 July 2025, what steps her Department plans to take to tackle sector-specific labour shortages identified by industry groups
Answer: Skills England aims to understand the nation’s future skills needs and drive growth by mobilising employers and partners to co-create solutions that address national and regional skills priorities. Skills England’s second report, ‘Skills for Growth and Op...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Buckingham and BletchleyDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72270More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the document entitled Backing your business, published on 31 July 2025, what steps his Department plans to take to support SMEs to access skills funding in Buckingham and Bletchley co
Answer: The Government is supporting SMEs across the country, including in Buckingham and Bletchley, by investing £1.2 billion annually in skills by 2028-29 as set out in the Spring Budget. Through Skills England and the new Growth and Skills levy, we are making ...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: ApprenticesDepartment for Work and PensionsTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72269More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what data her Department plans to collect to assess the effectiveness of its targeted support to help SMEs offer apprenticeships.
Answer: Small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are important to the economy and to apprenticeships. They provide valuable opportunities for younger apprentices and apprentices from disadvantaged areas.The department collects and publishes data on apprenticeship...
Answered 15 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: RegulationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72268More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans the Department has to publish impact assessments of regulatory changes affecting small businesses.
Answer: Impact assessments are generally required for all the Government’s interventions of a regulatory nature that affect the private sector and-or civil society organisation or public services. The Better Regulation Framework requires regulatory provisions wit...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: RegulationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72267More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what methodology his Department plans to use to quantify the (a) time and (b) cost savings to SMEs from regulatory reform.
Answer: The government has committed to cut the administrative costs of regulation to business by 25% by the end of this Parliament. By focusing on reducing administrative costs, we will ensure that regulations achieve their policy objectives in the most efficien...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordBusiness: RegulationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72266More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what criteria his Department plans to use to identify regulatory reporting requirements suitable for (a) simplification and (b) removal.
Answer: The Department for Business and Trade is undertaking a review to simplify and streamline the UK’s non-financial reporting framework. When considering what reporting can be simplified and removed whether the disclosure leads to decision-useful information ...
Answered 3 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: RegulationDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72265More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many regulations affecting SMEs are under review as part of the SME Regulation Review.
Answer: Earlier this year, the Prime Minister announced that government will cut administrative costs of regulation to all business, including SMEs, by 25% by the end of this Parliament. We are working across government to deliver this target to make it easier to...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: Capital InvestmentDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72264More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what modelling his Department has undertaken on the anticipated economic impact of expanding SME access to growth capital.
Answer: The economic impacts of increased access to capital are modelled by the British Business Bank drawing on independent evaluation evidence. The Bank models impact on job creation and economic output in the form of incremental gross value added (GVA).Over it...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordSmall Businesses: LoansDepartment for Business and TradeTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 72263More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what plans are in place to monitor the geographic distribution of SME lending facilitated by British Business Bank schemes.
Answer: Where possible, finance facilitated by the British Business Bank is mapped to a postcode level. Much of this data is published: for instance, the number and value of Start Up Loans data is published on the BBB website every quarter. Geographic data is als...
Answered 12 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordStock MarketTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71690More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans she has to measure the effectiveness of the Listings Taskforce in increasing the number of UK and international firms listing on UK markets.
Answer: The UK’s capital markets are deep and strong, delivering for firms and investors, and supporting firms to start, scale, list and stay here. At Mansion House, the government published its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy. This documen...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordStock Market: RegulationTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71689More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of Benchmarks Regulation reform on (a) market confidence and (b) cross-border data interoperability.
Answer: The UK’s capital markets are deep and strong, delivering for firms and investors, and supporting firms to start, scale, list and stay here. At Mansion House, the government published its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy. This documen...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCapital Markets: RegulationTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71688More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how the effectiveness of the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System will be assessed in supporting firms to raise pre-IPO capital.
Answer: The UK’s capital markets are deep and strong, delivering for firms and investors, and supporting firms to start, scale, list and stay here. At Mansion House, the government published its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy. This documen...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordCapital MarketsTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71687More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the barriers faced by UK-domiciled high-growth firms seeking to transition from private to public capital markets.
Answer: The UK’s capital markets are deep and strong, delivering for firms and investors, and supporting firms to start, scale, list and stay here. At Mansion House, the government published its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy. This documen...
Answered 8 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice for InvestmentTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71686More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to ensure that the Office for Investment: Financial Services engages systematically with (a) devolved Administrations and (b) regional investment bodies.
Answer: The Office for Investment: Financial Services is a public-private partnership between HM Treasury, the Office for Investment, the financial services regulators, and the City of London Corporation, working together to attract the world’s best financial ser...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordFinancial Services: Foreign Investment in UKTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71685More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether her Department has established metrics for evaluating the impact of the concierge service on foreign direct investment into UK financial services.
Answer: The Office for Investment: Financial Services is a public-private partnership between HM Treasury, the Office for Investment, the financial services regulators, and the City of London Corporation, working together to attract the world’s best financial ser...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
Original Parliament recordOffice for InvestmentTreasuryTabled 29 Aug 2025AnsweredUIN 71684More
Question: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the regulatory co-ordination mechanisms in place between the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority to support the operations of the Offic
Answer: The Office for Investment: Financial Services is a public-private partnership between HM Treasury, the Office for Investment, the financial services regulators, and the City of London Corporation, working together to attract the world’s best financial ser...
Answered 4 Sept 2025
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