Question follow-through · 105479
Small Businesses: Work Experience
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a work experience scheme for relevant Ministers to shadow small business owners.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 13 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 15 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Economy and business
- Department for Business and Trade: Research · 14 Jan 2026
- Department for Business and Trade: Equality · 19 Jan 2026
- Department for Business and Trade: Hotels · 5 Feb 2026
- Migrant Workers: Visas · 29 Jun 2026
- Migrant Workers: Visas · 29 Jun 2026
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- Taxation (Energy and Vehicles) Bill Committee: New Clause 5 · 1 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
13 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a work experience scheme for relevant Ministers to shadow small business owners.
15 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2026
Answer published
This government is committed to hardwiring the voice of SME owners and entrepreneurs into government policy. For example, as part of co-designing our Plan for Small Business launched in July 2025, DBT Ministers engaged with hundreds of individual SMEs acr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Department for Business and Trade: Research
14 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what the cost to the public purse was of feasibility studies conducted by their Department for projects that did not proceed in the last five years.
Department for Business and Trade: Equality
19 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many civil servants employed by their Department work in roles primarily focused on (a) transgender policy, (b) diversity, (c) equity and (d) inclusion; and at what annual salary cost.
Department for Business and Trade: Hotels
5 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many nights were spent in hotels by Departmental staff in financial year 2024-25 by the star rating of the hotel.
Migrant Workers: Visas
29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how much funding has been paid under the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale-Ups; how many overseas workers have been supported; and how many dependants have been included.
Migrant Workers: Visas
29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many applications to the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale-Ups have been (a) received, (b) approved and (c) rejected.
Migrant Workers: Visas
29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many overseas workers are supported under the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale-Ups broken down by nationality.
Migrant Workers: Visas
29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many overseas dependents are supported under the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale-Ups broken down by nationality.
Migrant Workers: Visas
29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many applications for overseas workers hid Department received under the Visa Fees Reimbursement Scheme for Scale-Ups, broken down by nationality, in each year since it has been in operation.
Business: Floods
9 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many applications were (a) received, (b) approved and (c) paid for the Business Recovery Grant in each financial year since 2023-24; and what the value of grants paid was in each year.