Question follow-through · 52022
Small Businesses: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support small businesses to develop AI investment plans.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support small businesses to develop AI investment plans.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
Adoption of new digital technology, including AI, can help businesses become more productive – but we know Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) sometimes need additional help and support to do so.The AI Opportunities Action Plan set out a vision for ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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