Question follow-through · 34047
Small Businesses: Training
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of subsidising the cost of IT courses for staff in small and medium enterprises.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 26 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of subsidising the cost of IT courses for staff in small and medium enterprises.
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2025
Answer published
Use of digital technology is a key driver for productivity, helping businesses become more efficient. However, many businesses in the UK are slow to adopt new software, and we know smaller businesses in particular may not have access to information, resou...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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