Question follow-through · 61378

Small Businesses: Investment

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to incentivise investment in small and mid-sized companies.

answeredTreasury

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Answering body
Treasury
Tabled
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
23 Jun 2025
Answer
26 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to incentivise investment in small and mid-sized companies.

  2. 23 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 26 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    This Government believes that small businesses are vital to the UK’s high streets and communities, and essential to the success of the government’s growth mission. To support small businesses, the Government announced generous tax reforms at Autumn Budget...

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