Question follow-through · 5214
Defence: Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access of defence SMEs to basic banking services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 29 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jun 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
29 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of access of defence SMEs to basic banking services.
2 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jun 2026
Answer published
The government is committed to increasing direct spend with SMEs and are committed to ensuring they have a fair opportunity to win public contracts. As set out in the Defence Industrial Strategy, Ministry of Defence is backing British jobs, British indust...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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