Question follow-through · 65255
UK Export Finance: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that the UK Export Finance expansion reaches small businesses.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 7 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jul 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that the UK Export Finance expansion reaches small businesses.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Jul 2025
Answer published
Recognising the impact of the support it offers, the government recently increased UK Export Finance’s maximum commitment limit to £80 billion, enabling it to expand its finance support for UK businesses of all sizes.In 2023 to 2024, 88% of the businesses...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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