Question follow-through · 115586
Small Businesses: Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of the Made Smarter Adoption Programme on energy cost reductions for SMEs.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 24 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 27 Feb 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the potential impact of the Made Smarter Adoption Programme on energy cost reductions for SMEs.
26 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Feb 2026
Answer published
The Made Smarter Adoption Programme is primarily designed to boost SME productivity, but digital adoption can also deliver energy‑cost savings. The 2024 Institute for Manufacturing’s government‑commissioned report on the programme found a third of the fir...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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