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We need to turn hand outs into incentives to beat claimant rise
If this country is to break the cycle of benefits and unemployment then the Government needs to act more like a private sector employer than a…
Sunday 8 November 2026
The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
If this country is to break the cycle of benefits and unemployment then the Government needs to act more like a private sector employer than a…
Getting business to export is a 10 year challenge.The Institute of Chartered Accounts of England and Wales are talking about UK exports and why Trade Minister…
Skills, the rural economy and medium sized businesses will be at the centre of the next stage of the Growth Review, the Government announced today, as…
More than thirty per cent of all small businesses needing finance were turned down by their bank last year, up from only 14 per cent twelve…
Over the last few months, I have focused in my various blog entries on the benefits cloud computing can provide SMEs from cost savings to enhanced…
Government statistics show that the number of companies in the UK at the start of 2010 has increased by 48,000, with 99.9 per cent of them…
The latest figures on how much UK banks are lending to businesses will be published later today by the Bank of England and they are expected…
Business Secretary Vince Cable will formally launch the Government's flagship £2.5 billion business growth fund (BGF) today as part of efforts to stimulate lending to small…
Mary Portas, one of the UKs leading retail experts and host of TV's Queen of Shops, has been appointed to lead an independent review into the…
North East small firms have chance to apply for funding: Small firms have been given the chance to claim a slice of £1m to boost their…
Making employment law more flexible so that it works in the interests of businesses as well as workers is a major component of our new Get…
The drive to boost local economic growth was stepped up today with Business Minister Mark Prisk announcing a package of measures to help local enterprise partnerships…
The seventh series of The Apprentice (BBC One) began last night, and the main news to report is that the title is now completely meaningless. The…
Business Secretary Vince Cable is set to chair the second meeting of his Entrepreneurs' Forum, the group which provides informal and personal advice on new business…
High street banks have admitted they are incentivising staff to sell more expensive “alternative” credit products to small business customers as industry lending to these businesses…