Question follow-through · 99382
Small Businesses: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to establish metrics to monitor the effectiveness of the Government’s scale-up interventions.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 11 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 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, whether his Department plans to establish metrics to monitor the effectiveness of the Government’s scale-up interventions.
15 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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16 Dec 2025
Answer published
Monitoring and evaluation are an important way of identifying lessons that can be learnt to improve both the design and delivery of future interventions. Consistent with HMT guidance, we will establish metrics and proportionate monitoring and evaluation p...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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