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Small Businesses: Buckingham and Bletchley

Asked by Callum AndersonLabourDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 16 December 2025UIN 99383

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has issued guidance on the processes for identifying firms in the Buckingham and Bletchley constituency eligible for scale-up support.

Answered by Blair McDougall

As announced in the Industrial Strategy and Plan for SMEs, DBT is developing a new scale-up offer to help firms with high growth potential start, scale and stay in the UK. I am aware of the work my Honourable Friend is doing to drive investment into Bletchley and the businesses in his constituency through the Bletchley Investment Taskforce. I hope working together, in partnership with the Buckinghamshire Business First and South Midlands Growth Hubs, we can do more to support economically important scale-ups in his constituency and across the UK.

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