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Retail Trade: Urban Areas

Asked by Lee AndersonReform UKDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 26 February 2026UIN 114251

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support high street businesses.

Answered by Blair McDougall

Our Small Business Plan sets out how government will support high street businesses in the everyday economy. Later this year, MHCLG will publish a new High Streets Strategy setting out how we can support high streets to thrive.

This will build upon MHCLG's £5 billion Pride in Place Programme to renew our neighbourhoods and high streets. Kirkby-in-Ashfield was announced in the first 75 places to receive up to £20 million over the next decade as part of the Pride in Place programme and Ashfield will be in receipt of £1.5 million as part of the Pride in Place Impact Fund.

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