Question follow-through · 69709
Venture Capital
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of venture capital funding into the UK.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 21 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2025 · 53 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of recent trends in the level of venture capital funding into the UK.
1 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2025
Answer published
UK venture funding appears to be stabilising after the downturn seen during 2021-2022, with dealmaking recovering and job creation increasing. It is important to note company fundraising is proving more resilient than fund fundraising, creating a tougher ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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