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Business: Digital Technology

Asked by Charlotte CaneLiberal DemocratDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 15 July 2025UIN 65519

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to help support businesses to take up digital technologies.

Answered by Gareth Thomas

The SME Digital Adoption Taskforce will shortly publish its final recommendations to accelerate digital adoption among Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, and we are launching pilots to test delivery of support.

Our Industrial Strategy set out ambitions, informed by the Technology Adoption Review, to increase digital adoption in growth-driving sectors. This includes expansion of Made Smarter Adoption up to £99m for manufacturing SMEs.

This complements existing support like Help to Grow: Management which offers training to business leaders (including on digital), National Cyber Security Centre guidance, and implementation of the AI Opportunities Action Plan.

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