Question follow-through · 43629
Defence: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the new support hub for SMEs will be operational.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 2 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 8 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Defence and foreign affairs
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
2 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when the new support hub for SMEs will be operational.
8 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 10 March 2025 to the hon. Member for South Suffolk (James Cartlidge) to Question 34903.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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