Question follow-through · 58421
Companies: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of companies requiring additional funding to help scale-up.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of companies requiring additional funding to help scale-up.
11 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Jun 2025
Answer published
The estimated equity finance gap (the difference between actual equity investment and potential equity investment) for all but established companies was £7.5 billion in 2021. [1] There is an equity finance gap in every region and nation of the UK; London ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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