Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 111012

Foreign Companies

Tabled: 4 February 2026
Answered: 10 February 2026
Named Day

Question

Victoria Collins

Liberal DemocratHarpenden and Berkhamsted

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many UK technology startups and scale-ups were acquired by foreign companies in each of the last three years; and what the total value of those acquisitions was in each of the last three years.

Answer

Blair McDougall
The statistics requested are not readily available. The Department for Business and Trade is supporting the next generation of start-ups and scale-ups, aiming to create the UK’s first trillion-dollar technology business by 2035. The Industrial Strategy an...

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