Question follow-through · 94554
Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to review the (a) definition of micro-entity and (b) level of support available to mico-entities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 25 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to review the (a) definition of micro-entity and (b) level of support available to mico-entities.
27 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government uplifted the monetary thresholds for determining a company is a micro-entity, for the purposes of audit and accounts by 50% in legislation that came into force in April this year. The Department does not plan to revisit this definition.As p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Companies: Meetings
18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that the modernisation of Annual General Meeting formats preserves the option for physical attendance.
Companies: Remote Meetings
18 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what comparative analysis his Department has made of the use of virtual-only Annual General Meeting practices in (a) the United States, (b) the European Union and (c) other major financial centres.