Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 72264

Small Businesses: Capital Investment

Tabled: 29 August 2025
Answered: 12 September 2025

Question

Callum Anderson

Labour — Buckingham and Bletchley

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what modelling his Department has undertaken on the anticipated economic impact of expanding SME access to growth capital.

Answer

Blair McDougall
The economic impacts of increased access to capital are modelled by the British Business Bank drawing on independent evaluation evidence. The Bank models impact on job creation and economic output in the form of incremental gross value added (GVA).Over it...
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