Question follow-through · 31141
New Businesses: Paisley and Renfrewshire North
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) encourage investment in startups and (b) support entrepreneurs in Paisley and Renfrewshire North constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 12 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help (a) encourage investment in startups and (b) support entrepreneurs in Paisley and Renfrewshire North constituency.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
We will publish our Small Business Strategy later this year with a clear ambition to promote startups and encourage entrepreneurship, built around the new Business Growth Service.Existing support includes Help to Grow: Management - UK, providing practical...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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