Question follow-through · 97828
Small Businesses: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of Government support schemes on small business participation in Small Business Saturday.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 8 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the potential impact of Government support schemes on small business participation in Small Business Saturday.
11 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
I congratulate Small Business Britain on another excellent Small Business Saturday, during which the Government launched the new ‘Backing your Business’ campaign to drive uptake of the Business Growth Service and boost awareness of the Small Business Plan...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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