Question follow-through · 8414
Small Businesses
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of public procurement in supporting the growth of UK scale-up businesses.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 9 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 11 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 16 Jun 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of public procurement in supporting the growth of UK scale-up businesses.
11 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jun 2026
Answer published
£400 billion of public money is spent on government contracts every year.The Government recognises that public procurement can play an important role in supporting the growth of UK scale-ups, particularly by providing early revenue, credibility and a rout...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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