Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 86412

Small Businesses: North East

Tabled: 29 October 2025
Answered: 3 November 2025

Question

Joe Morris

LabourHexham

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the number of small and medium sized businesses that have secured angel investment in the last 12 months in (a) Hexham constituency, (b) Northumberland, (c) New

Answer

Blair McDougall
Surveys by the UK Business Angels Association indicate that around 90% of business angels invest using either the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) or Small Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS). Therefore, while the Department does not collect data on ang...

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