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Business: Job Creation
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled ‘UK lenders step up with £11 billion push to back British businesses’ published on 26 January 2026, what estimate he has made of the number of
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 27 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 2 Feb 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
27 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled ‘UK lenders step up with £11 billion push to back British businesses’ published on 26 January 2026, what estimate he has made of the number of
29 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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2 Feb 2026
Answer published
The package is a commitment from the UK’s top high-street banks to lend more to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using UKEF’s guarantee, to boost UK exports and economic growth. It signals to SMEs that want to export that there is a dedicated poo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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