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Select Committee Inquiry
Small business strategy
Inquiry Opened: 16th Jun 2025
Business and Trade Committee

At the Autumn Budget 2024, the government announced its intention to publish a Small Business Strategy “setting out the government’s vision for support for small businesses”. This will be published in 2025.

To ensure the Committee and Parliament can scrutinise this policy effectively, the Business & Trade Committee will …
Select Committee Inquiry
UK trade with the US, India and EU
Inquiry Opened: 6th Jun 2025
Business and Trade Committee

The Business and Trade Committee is launching an inquiry into the UK’s trade deals with three of its most important partners: the United States, India, and the European Union.

As part of this work, the Committee will scrutinise the detail and implementation of three recent developments: the India Free …
Select Committee Inquiry
Industrial Strategy
Inquiry Opened: 28th Jan 2025
Business and Trade Committee

Our first industrial strategy inquiry will take a comprehensive look at the Government's proposals for a 10-year modern industrial strategy, as set out in Invest 2035. We will scrutinise the proposals in the Government’s Green Paper, and its forthcoming White Paper, and make recommendations for the Comprehensive Spending Review. 

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Select Committee Inquiry
Export led growth
Inquiry Opened: 15th Jan 2025
Business and Trade Committee
Select Committee Inquiry
The work of the Department for Business and Trade
Inquiry Opened: 20th Nov 2024
Business and Trade Committee
Select Committee Inquiry
Business and Trade Committee: priorities
Inquiry Opened: 13th Nov 2024
Business and Trade Committee

Our role as the House of Commons Business and Trade Committee is to shine a light on issues in business and trade policy. This is an opportunity to inform our work and tell us where to look. 

We want to know your views on the Government’s goals to:

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Select Committee Inquiry
Make Work Pay: Employment Rights Bill
Inquiry Opened: 31st Oct 2024
Business and Trade Committee

The newly re-formed Business and Trade Committee is launching its first call for evidence on the Government’s new flagship Employment Rights Bill.

The new Government has announced a comprehensive overhaul of employment law in what it is calling the ‘biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation.’ The …
Select Committee Inquiry
Industrial policy
Inquiry Opened: 19th Dec 2023
Business and Trade Committee

The Business and Trade Committee is launching a programme of work to scrutinise the UK Government’s approach to industrial policy, which will examine how industrial policy can be used to build on the UK’s strengths and competitive advantages, enhance economic security and help the UK reach Net Zero by 2050.
Select Committee Inquiry
The performance of investment zones and freeports in England
Inquiry Opened: 9th Jun 2023
Business and Trade Committee

The Business and Trade Committee is launching an inquiry into the performance of investment zones and freeports in England. The Committee will examine what progress has been made so far on both investment zones and freeports. It will also consider how England can make the most of these policies now …
Select Committee Inquiry
Export-led growth
Inquiry Opened: 26th May 2023
Business and Trade Committee

The Business and Trade Committee has launched an inquiry into Export-led growth. The Committee will examine how well equipped the UK is to achieve the ambitious target set by the Government for growth in UK exports by the end of the current decade. It will also consider how the UK …