Question follow-through · 19039
Retail Trade: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes in the Autumn Budget on the retail sector.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of changes in the Autumn Budget on the retail sector.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Chancellor has been clear that the government must take difficult choices. This was a budget to fix the foundations of the economy, and these tough decisions are intended to provide a platform for growth.Government is focused on its five-point plan to...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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