Small Businesses: North East
Commons · Question 86412 · Tabled 29 Oct 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record
Answered 3 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Joe Morris
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
Answered by Blair McDougall, 3 Nov 2025
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...