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...