Question follow-through · 42169
New Businesses: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the ability of newly formed companies to access finance.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 27 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 10 Apr 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the ability of newly formed companies to access finance.
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government works with the British Business Bank to improve the access to finance landscape for smaller businesses. An example of the Bank’s interventions is the Start Up Loans programme which provides personal loans to start up a new business or devel...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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