Question follow-through · 1600
Small Businesses: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support small businesses in (a) rural and (b) semi-rural areas.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 24 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 26 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 31 Jul 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
24 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support small businesses in (a) rural and (b) semi-rural areas.
26 Jul 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Jul 2024
Answer published
Small businesses are the beating heart of our high streets, our communities, and essential to our economic success. This Government will hardwire the voice of small business into everything we do. Businesses can access support through their local Growth H...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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