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Small Businesses: Employment

Commons · Question 114121 · Tabled 20 Feb 2026 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 26 Feb 2026

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps she is taking to help SMEs to increase employment opportunities.

Answer

Answered by Lucy Rigby, 26 Feb 2026

We are helping SMEs grow and employ more people through our largest ever injection of capital into the British Business Bank. Over the next five years, the British Business Bank will increase annual deployment by two-thirds, aiming to unlock around £26 bi...