Business support policy should not be driven by central Government, say advisers

Posted by admin on February 22, 2010 under Business Planning | Comments are off for this article

In December 2009 Cobweb carried out its latest survey of UK business advisers to find out their opinions on whether business support policy and delivery should be driven locally, regionally or centrally (ie nationally).

The survey was carried out among subscribers to Cobweb’s BAD News service and 254 individual business advisers participated. Respondents were located across the whole of the UK and were working for (or with) a range of support agencies including regional Business Links, local enterprise agencies, local councils, Chambers of Commerce, RDAs, charities and trade associations, as well as independent business advisers and consultants.

The headline results reveal that only 11% of respondents believe that support policy, strategy and delivery should be driven centrally, with over 80% saying policy should be decided and driven without any central Government influence or control. Almost half of survey respondents were of the opinion that business support should be entirely locally driven, as far from the centre as possible.

Download full report: http://www.cobwebinfo.com/servlet/file/pdf006_complete.pdf?ITEM_ENT_ID=13363&COLLSPEC_ENT_ID=439

Read more: http://www.cobwebinfo.com/site/article_detail/item13346/

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