Question follow-through · 908254
Business: Operating Costs
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support businesses with their operating costs.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 5 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 12 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support businesses with their operating costs.
12 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Mar 2026
Answer published
We are committed to reducing operating costs for all UK businesses, including those in Eastleigh and across Hampshire.We are reducing the annual administrative burden of regulation by £5.6bn by 2029, enabling UK businesses to unlock growth and boost innov...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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