Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 97577

Small Businesses: Artificial Intelligence

Tabled: 5 December 2025

Answered: 10 December 2025

Question

Victoria Collins

Liberal Democrat — Harpenden and Berkhamsted

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to develop standards to help with procurement and encourage AI adoption amongst SMEs.

Answer

Blair McDougall

In July, the SME Digital Adoption Taskforce published ten recommendations to help the UK’s SMEs become the most digitally capable and AI confident in the G7 by 2035. We are now working to deliver these recommendations.We have already partnered with Google...

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