Question follow-through · 37486
New Businesses: Women
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what proportion of British Business Bank funding is dedicated to supporting female entrepreneurs by sector.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 20 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what proportion of British Business Bank funding is dedicated to supporting female entrepreneurs by sector.
19 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Mar 2025
Answer published
The British Business Bank delivers most programmes via third parties, limiting data on gender and sectoral breakdowns, however it aims to increase gender data in 2025.The Start Up Loans programme is an example of where gender data is held, and since 2012,...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Small Businesses: Mental Health
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Beer: Competition
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