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Question follow-through · 122950

Small Businesses: Coronavirus

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of financial support available to people who lost their businesses during the covid-19 pandemic.

answeredDepartment for Business and Trade

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Answering body
Department for Business and Trade
Tabled
23 Mar 2026
Target answer date
25 Mar 2026
Answer
27 Mar 2026 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of financial support available to people who lost their businesses during the covid-19 pandemic.

  2. 25 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    DBT published an evaluation report of the impact of the Covid-19 Business Support Grant Schemes in England and the British Business Bank has published a three year evaluation of the Covid-19 Loan Guarantee Schemes. These can be found at Evaluation of the ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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