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Business: Buckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what evaluation criteria will be used to assess the economic impact of the £11 billion lending support on businesses in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.

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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, what evaluation criteria will be used to assess the economic impact of the £11 billion lending support on businesses in Buckingham and Bletchley constituency.
29 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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 UK Export Finance’s (UKEF’s) guarantee, to boost UK exports and economic growth. It signals to SMEs that want to export that th...

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