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Business: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help support businesses to take up digital technologies.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
7 Jul 2025
Target answer date
9 Jul 2025
Answer
15 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 7 Jul 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help support businesses to take up digital technologies.

  2. 9 Jul 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 15 Jul 2025

    Answer published

    The SME Digital Adoption Taskforce will shortly publish its final recommendations to accelerate digital adoption among Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, and we are launching pilots to test delivery of support.Our Industrial Strategy set out ambitions, i...

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