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Small Businesses

Question for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

UIN HL3086, tabled on 28 October 2015

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they plan to support growing small businesses that require more facilities after they leave business hubs.

Answered on

9 November 2015

Growing small businesses can get assistance from a number of Government schemes. For example the Government set up Enterprise Zones across England to support new and expanding businesses by offering incentives such as tax relief on top of the doubling of Small Business Rates Relief which we have extended for a further year until April 2016.


There are also Catapult centres round the country - places where the very best of the UK’s businesses, scientists and engineers work together to transform ideas into products and services. They allow small businesses access to resources and equipment they may need.


Small businesses can find out more about these schemes and also obtain other advice that may help them by approaching their local Growth Hub. There are now 30 Growth Hubs across England that are bringing together local and national business support so that people can find the help they need quickly and easily.[i]






[i] http://www.lepnetwork.net/about-leps/the-network-of-leps/


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