Question follow-through · 5663
Small Businesses: Economic Growth
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of economic growth that will be created by small and medium-sized enterprises in the next five years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 7 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 11 Oct 2024 · 29 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an estimate of the proportion of economic growth that will be created by small and medium-sized enterprises in the next five years.
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
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11 Oct 2024
Answer published
Small and Medium Enterprises make a significant contribution to economic growth, they currently represent 99.9% of the UK’s business population, account for 16.7 million jobs (61% of total UK employment), and generate £2.4 trillion in annual turnover (53%...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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