Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 111012
Foreign Companies
Tabled: 4 February 2026
Answered: 10 February 2026
Named DayQuestion
Victoria Collins
Liberal Democrat — Harpenden 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 McDougallThe 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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