Question follow-through · 114121
Small Businesses: Employment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help SMEs to increase employment opportunities.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 20 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 24 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 26 Feb 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help SMEs to increase employment opportunities.
24 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Feb 2026
Answer published
We are helping SMEs grow and employ more people through our largest ever injection of capital into the British Business Bank. Over the next five years, the British Business Bank will increase annual deployment by two-thirds, aiming to unlock around £26 bi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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