Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 85013

Small Businesses: Clinical Trials

Tabled: 24 October 2025
Answered: 3 November 2025

Question

Dr Scott Arthur

LabourEdinburgh South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support small and medium-sized (a) biotechnology and (b) pharmaceutical companies to conduct clinical trials in the UK.

Answer

Chris McDonald
The Department for Business and Trade is committed to making the UK an outstanding place for life sciences companies to start and scale. The Office for Life Sciences has a target to see more scale-up finance raised by life sciences businesses in the UK th...

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