Question follow-through · 46272
Small Businesses: Rural Areas
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what support his Department is providing to small businesses in (a) Devon and (b) other rural areas.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 30 Apr 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what support his Department is providing to small businesses in (a) Devon and (b) other rural areas.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Apr 2025
Answer published
Last year the Business Secretary announced a new Business Growth Service which will make it easier for businesses across Devon and the rest of the UK and in rural areas, to get help, support and advice to grow and thrive.The South West Growth Hub is where...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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