Question follow-through · 2699
Small Businesses: Digital Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Government is taking to support small businesses adopting digital technologies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 26 May 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps the Government is taking to support small businesses adopting digital technologies.
21 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 May 2026
Answer published
Last summer, the industry-led SME Digital Adoption Taskforce set out ten recommendations to help small and medium-sized enterprises adopt digital technology, and boost productivity. We are taking these forward, including by collaborating with industry on ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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