Question follow-through · 12111
Small Businesses: Minimum Wage
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing the minimum wage on SMEs; and whether she plans to provide additional support to SMEs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 31 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2024 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
31 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of increasing the minimum wage on SMEs; and whether she plans to provide additional support to SMEs.
4 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2024
Answer published
This Government remains committed to helping small businesses thrive and will be publishing our Small Business Strategy next year. This will set out our vision for all small businesses, from boosting scale-ups to growing the co-operative economy. It will ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Postal Services: Ashfield
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Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries
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27 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what diversity, equality and inclusion targets his Department has for staff recruitment.
Iron and Steel: Manufacturing Industries
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Small Businesses: Trade Unions
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