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Small Businesses: Clinical Trials

Commons · Question 85013 · Tabled 24 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 3 Nov 2025

Question

Asked by Scott Arthur

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

Answered by Chris McDonald, 3 Nov 2025

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...