Question follow-through · 49258
Public Houses: West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support bars in West Dorset constituency.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 29 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to help support bars in West Dorset constituency.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
Hospitality businesses, including those in West Dorset, are at the heart of our communities and play a vital role in supporting economic growth and social cohension across the UK.We recently launched a licensing taskforce to reduce red tape and barriers t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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11 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to introduce paid carer’s leave for employees with caring responsibilities.
Delivery Services: Rural Areas
16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will have discussions with Ofcom on measures to hold parcel delivery companies to account for (a) delayed and (b) failed deliveries in rural areas.
Delivery Services: Standards
16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will have discussions with Ofcom on the average time taken for parcel deliveries in (a) rural and (b) urban areas.
Delivery Services: Rural Areas
16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will have discussions with Ofcom on the adequacy of parcel delivery firms in ensuring consistent delivery standards in rural communities.
Delivery Services: Rural Areas
16 Jul 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will have discussions with Ofcom on (a) monitoring and (b) reporting on the quality of parcel delivery services in rural areas.
Wines: West Dorset
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support the marketing and export of wine produced in West Dorset constituency.
Public Houses: West Dorset
3 Sept 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of trends in the level of costs of (a) energy, (b) water and (c) business rates on the viability of pubs in West Dorset constituency.
Insolvency
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to introduce (a) additional regulatory and (b) enforcement measures to prevent directors of insolvent companies from engaging in phoenixing.
Insolvency
10 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the (a) prevalence of phoenixing and (b) potential impact of phoenixing on small businesses.