Question follow-through · 15845
Small Businesses: Recruitment
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support small businesses to recruit new employees.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
- Small Businesses · 10 Jan 2025
- Public Houses and Pubs Code Adjudicator: Reviews · 12 Jan 2026
- Beer and Public Houses: Regulation · 12 Jan 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Draft Code of Practice on Electronic and Workplace Ballots for Statutory Trade Union Ballots · 15 Jul 2026
- Draft Trade Unions (Permissible Means of Voting) and Employment Rights (Unfair Dismissal) (Amendment) Order 2026 · 15 Jul 2026
- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support small businesses to recruit new employees.
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2024
Answer published
Our forthcoming Small Business Strategy will reaffirm our long-term support for small businesses and outline our vision for boosting scale-ups and helping all types of business to thrive and grow. This strategy will empower business owners and entrepreneu...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Small Businesses
10 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 3 December 2024 to Question 15845 on Small Businesses: Recruitment, when he plans to publish the small business strategy.
Public Houses and Pubs Code Adjudicator: Reviews
12 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when he plans to publish a response to the Statutory review of Pubs Code and Pubs Code Adjudicator 2022 to 2025.
Beer and Public Houses: Regulation
12 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to regulate pub-owning companies and breweries with fewer than 500 tied tenants.