British Business Bank: Disclosure of Information
(asked on 24th November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how the British Business Bank plans to measure and publish outcomes relating to its strategic objective to Unlock the potential in people and places, including how it will track and report the number of jobs created, regional investment disparities, and when those metrics will first be published.
Answered by
Blair McDougall
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
The British Business Bank measures and publishes the outcomes of its interventions and its assessment of the market for small business finance in the UK across several publications:
- The Bank’s Annual Report and Accounts
- An annual Impact Report
- Independent evaluation reports on individual programmes, such as the Regions and Nations Investment Funds
- Research reports including an annual assessment of small business finance markets and a Nations and Regions Tracker
The next Small Business Finance Markets report is planned to be published in February/March 2026, with the Annual Report and Impact Report in July/August 2026.