Question follow-through · 21462
New Businesses: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to incentivise growth in rural businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 19 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2025 · 20 calendar days after tabling
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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
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to incentivise growth in rural businesses.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
Rural businesses offer significant potential for growth and are central to our economy. DBT works with other departments who provide funding for the Rural England Prosperity Fund (REPF) supporting new and existing rural businesses and improved community i...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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