Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 97829

Retail Trade: Small Businesses

Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 11 December 2025
Named Day

Question

Mr Andrew Snowden

Conservative — Fylde

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what recent assessment his Department has made of the economic impact of Small Business Saturday on high streets and local economies.

Answer

Blair McDougall
The Department has not done, and does not plan to do an assessment of the economic impact of Small Business Saturday on high streets and local economies.The Small Business Saturday campaign has done its own analysis; they suggest that Small Business Satur...
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