Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
27 October 2026
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Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee Actual start House of Commons
Follow its sittings19:56 - 20:20
Speaker 1
Welcome to today's session of the Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee as we open our inquiry into entrepreneurship in our country.
And we open it on the day that the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor for this year is published. So, Mark Hart, you are one of the lead authors of this internationally acclaimed study. Do you want to tell us what it said and give us the good news and the bad news for the UK?
20:20 - 20:46
Speaker 3
Well, this is the 27th year we've been publishing this report, so I think it's very timely that we released it this morning as you start the inquiry, Chair. I think in terms of the headlines, the central message is that ambition is alive and well in the UK. We are in a more entrepreneurial society than we've ever been since we started the project back in 1999. There's more people involved in...
20:46 - 20:50
Speaker 2
That's actually quite a big assertion.
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