{"value":{"id":1742736,"askingMemberId":4124,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2024-11-19T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2024-11-21T00:00:00","uin":"14941","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps his Department is taking to support (a) innovation and (b) growth in the bicycle manufacturing industry.","answeringBodyId":214,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Business and Trade","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4631,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2024-11-26T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>Small businesses and manufacturers are vital to high streets and communities, and essential to the success of the Government’s growth mission.</p><p> </p><p>At the Budget, the Government announced we would be continuing funding for key business support programmes in 2025-26: Growth Hubs in England, and the Help to Grow: Management programme. We also announced we are extending Made Smarter Innovation with up to £37m funding. Funding for the Made Smarter Adoption programme will double to £16 million in 2025-26, supporting more small manufacturing businesses to adopt advanced digital technologies and enabling the programme to be expanded to all nine English regions.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Bicycles: Manufacturing Industries","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1742736","method":"GET"}]}