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Business Growth Service

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when the New Business Growth Service is going to be launched.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
26 Mar 2025
Target answer date
28 Mar 2025
Answer
9 Apr 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, when the New Business Growth Service is going to be launched.

  2. 28 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    The new Business Growth service will simplify the government’s business support ecosystem to ensure businesses get the support they need with local delivery at its heart and all underpinned by an improved online service. This will help deliver the governm...

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