Question follow-through · 61280

New Businesses: Advisory Services

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Entrepreneurship Advisor role on small businesses.

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
23 Jun 2025
Answer
27 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Entrepreneurship Advisor role on small businesses.

  2. 23 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    Reducing barriers for business, entrepreneurs and investors is key to boosting economic growth and delivering the government’s Plan for Change. Alex Depledge has been appointed as the government’s Entrepreneurship Advisor and brings extensive entrepreneur...

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