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Simplifying Business Support
Starting Date: 22-06-07
Closing Date: 14-09-07
Government wants to simplify business support in England from around 3000 schemes to no more than 100 by 2010. We want to make sure business support funded by Government is simple for business to access, has a real impact on public policy goals and represents value for money.
The chancellor made a commitment to consult in the 2007 Budget and this consultation outlines and seeks views on the business support government might fund in the future. It sets out the role of Business Link as the primary route to publicly-funded business support and seeks views on how Business Link can be developed to play this role. Finally, it seeks views on how to avoid business support schemes proliferating again once they have been simplified.
The consultation is aimed at business (including social enterprises) and their representatives; local authorities and other public sector organisations involved in business support; and private, public and third sector organisations that are contracted to provide publicly funded support to business.
Supplementary information relating to this consultation is available via the link below:
Consultation Documents
- Simplifying business support: a consultation
(295KB) - Simplifying business support: a consultation [Word Version]
(391KB)