Question follow-through · 117405
Small Businesses: Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of statutory and compliance costs on (a) small and (b) micro businesses.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 3 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 5 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 10 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of statutory and compliance costs on (a) small and (b) micro businesses.
5 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Government recognises that too many small businesses have been held back from achieving growth and reaching their full potential in recent years. That is why we published our Plan for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses. The Plan contains over 200 targe...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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