Question follow-through · 32027
New Businesses: Shareholders
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support employee share ownership in venture capital-backed startups.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 5 Mar 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support employee share ownership in venture capital-backed startups.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Mar 2025
Answer published
Venture capital-backed startups will frequently offer shares in the business to employees, as part of their remuneration. Most of these startups will be eligible to use the Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI) scheme, which is open to firms with assets ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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