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Help to Grow Schemes

Asked by Matt VickersConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 22 July 2025UIN 68004

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many businesses have accessed the Help to Grow programme in the latest period for which data is available.

Answered by Gareth Thomas

The Department for Business and Trade publishes data on participant enrolments and completions on the Help to Grow: Management course among transparency documents on gov.uk linked here. Up to the end of March 2025, the programme has supported 11,850 business people since its launch in June 2021.

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