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Consultation Responses



Business Support Simplification – September 2007

Government wants to simplify business support in England from around 3000 schemes to no more than 100 by 2010. They 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;
  • Seeks views on how Business Link can be developed to play this role;
  • And, how to avoid business support schemes proliferating again once they have been simplified.

View ANEC Simplifying Business Support Consultation Response