Question follow-through · 25081
Small Businesses: Statistics
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had discussions with the UK Statistics Authority on reducing the frequency of compulsory Office for National Statistics surveys for small businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 8 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has had discussions with the UK Statistics Authority on reducing the frequency of compulsory Office for National Statistics surveys for small businesses.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Sept 2026
Answer published
HM Treasury has not conducted an assessment of the impact of ONS business surveys and has not discussed reducing the frequency of compulsory business surveys with the UK Statistics Authority. The Treasury recognises that surveys place a burden on business...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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