Question follow-through · 119645
Small Businesses: Closures and Contracts
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the number of small to medium sized enterprises that are planning to close or contract over the 2026-2027 financial year.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2026 · 2 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate he has made of the number of small to medium sized enterprises that are planning to close or contract over the 2026-2027 financial year.
12 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2026
Answer published
The government is not able to make predictions on total future numbers of businesses starting, closing or contracting. Our plan is to make the UK the best place to start and grow a business, with a culture that supports entrepreneurship in every community...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Post Offices: Closures
29 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help protect post office services following closures of convenience stores where post offices are based.
Companies: Remote Meetings
18 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the impact of UK corporations holding online-only Annual General Meetings on the digitally excluded in Yeovil constituency who have a financial stake in such corporations
Construction: Labour Market
26 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the construction workforce in (a) Yeovil constituency, (b) Somerset and (c) England.