Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 58421

Companies: Finance

Tabled: 9 June 2025
Answered: 18 June 2025

Question

Callum Anderson

Labour — Buckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of companies requiring additional funding to help scale-up.

Answer

Gareth Thomas
The estimated equity finance gap (the difference between actual equity investment and potential equity investment) for all but established companies was £7.5 billion in 2021. [1] There is an equity finance gap in every region and nation of the UK; London ...
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