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Small Businesses: Government Assistance

Asked by Callum AndersonLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 16 December 2025UIN 99382

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department plans to establish metrics to monitor the effectiveness of the Government’s scale-up interventions.

Answered by Blair McDougall

Monitoring and evaluation are an important way of identifying lessons that can be learnt to improve both the design and delivery of future interventions. Consistent with HMT guidance, we will establish metrics and proportionate monitoring and evaluation provisions for DBT’s scale-up interventions.

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