Question follow-through · 99312
Iron and Steel: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the time taken for the Steel Strategy on the availability of credit insurance for SMEs in the steel supply chain.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the time taken for the Steel Strategy on the availability of credit insurance for SMEs in the steel supply chain.
16 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to supporting the UK steel sector. Our decisive legislative intervention at British Steel has secured UK manufactured steel for nationally important projects like airports and rail and supported jobs and national security.We al...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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22 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what discussions (a) he and (b) his officials had with the British Business Bank on Kraken Technologies prior to 20 January 2026.
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22 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the level of private capital the British Business Bank expects to crowd-in from their investment in Kraken Technologies.
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23 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of investment by British Business Bank in Kraken Technologies.
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23 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to ensure that British Business Bank invests in line with its strategic priorities.
Wayve
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Wayve
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Wayve
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16 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to the Companies House news story entitled Update on Companies House WebFiling security issue, published on 16 March 2026, what steps his Department is taking to (a) identify and (b) not