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Small Businesses: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help SMEs adopt digital technology.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
12 Feb 2025
Answer
12 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 6 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking with Cabinet colleagues to help SMEs adopt digital technology.

  2. 12 Feb 2025

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  3. 12 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    To support more small businesses’ digitisation efforts, we announced at Budget 2024 that we would extend the work of the SME Digital Adoption Taskforce. The Taskforce is made up of industry experts and focuses on addressing the challenge of how to support...

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