Small Businesses: Innovation

(asked on 8th September 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to promote innovation by SMEs (a) across the country, (b) in Hounslow and (c) in Feltham and Heston constituency.


Answered by
Nusrat Ghani Portrait
Nusrat Ghani
Minister of State (Minister for Europe)
This question was answered on 28th September 2022

The Government is acting decisively to enable all businesses to innovate. It has launched new Prosperity Partnerships, invested a further £25m in the Connecting Capability Fund, and in financial year 2021-22 supported more than 850 SME manufacturing firms with almost 150 digital transformation projects through Made Smarter Adoption.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which is delivered by local government across the UK, has the aim of building pride in place and increasing life chances. The Greater London Authority has been given £145m across the three years of the Fund.

Local authorities will decide what they wish to deliver, in line with local priorities and need. We have published a full list on GOV.UK.

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