Question follow-through · 521
Small Businesses: Insolvency
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of small and medium-sized enterprises that have dissolved citing the UK’s exit from the EU as a contributing factor since 2021.
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- Answering body
- Cabinet Office
- Tabled
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 21 May 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what estimate he has made of the number of small and medium-sized enterprises that have dissolved citing the UK’s exit from the EU as a contributing factor since 2021.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
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21 May 2026
Answer published
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2 Jun 2026
Answer corrected
The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question’s of 13th May is attached.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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