Question follow-through · 31223
Small Businesses: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help protect small businesses from regulatory burden.
About this written question
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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 he is taking to help protect small businesses from regulatory burden.
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Government is developing an ambitious regulatory reform agenda to ensure that future regulation, or reforms to regulation, work for businesses and supports the Government’s growth mission. It is essential that we continue to identify areas where the c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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