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Government Must Raise Its Game to Help Firms

The Government's business support network is failing to provide consistently high quality help and advice to new and growing firms, according to a report by the CBI released last month.

They face a baffling array of conflicting, confusing and inconsistent quangoes, grants and agencies across the UK - funded by a Government budget of £8bn a year - including at least 2,650 schemes in England alone.

Throughout 2005 and 2006, the CBI is publishing a series of reports, 'Enabling the Enterprise Revolution', looking at whether progress has been made, and how to achieve government targets.

www.cbi.org.uk/enterpriserevolution

Stevens Rowsell is a specialist precision sheet metal engineering company in East Sussex