Question follow-through · 20880
Small Businesses: Exports
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to provide export support for small businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 20 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to provide export support for small businesses.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Dec 2024
Answer published
Under the umbrella of the recently announced Business Growth Service, UK businesses can access DBT’s wealth of export support via Great.gov.uk. This comprises an online support offer and a wider network of support including the Export Academy, UK Export F...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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