Question follow-through · 52453
Small Businesses: Buckinghamshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of SMEs in (a) Buckinghamshire and (b) Milton Keynes that have secured angel investment in the last 24 months.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of SMEs in (a) Buckinghamshire and (b) Milton Keynes that have secured angel investment in the last 24 months.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
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21 May 2025
Answer published
Business angels are a significant source of equity investment for start-up and early-stage businesses. Angel investments are typically private arrangements and therefore there is no requirement for them to be publicly reported. The British Business Bank s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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