Recommendations on ways to slash business bureaucracy are made in a report commissioned by the Scottish Government.

End of March I posted this which outlined the absolute 'Horlicks' that the Assembly Government had made of providing advice to businesses in Mid Wales. To recap briefly - after many years of business advice provision by Powys County Council, (through Business Connect and Business Eye) the contract to supply the service was given to a company from outside the area called Business in Focus...

Chuka Umunna MP, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, today tells the Government to stop “selling British business short” and make better use of its buying power as the UK’s biggest consumer to boost enterprise and jobs. Read Labour's Business and Enterprise working group interim report in full here.

As readers of this blog will know by now, I am a passionate supporter of reducing business rates for small firms in Wales. In devolution terms, it is the only real financial instrument available to the Welsh Assembly Government and whilst it does not have power to reduce corporation tax, it does have responsibility for business rates which affects every single business in our economy. Therefore, a...

A report by the Centre for Cities has confirmed what we might have already assumed, that Birmingham business is ‘drowning in a sea of complex and Government-backed support organisations’. An article about the report appeared in the Birmingham Post at...

Today the government intends to give banking chiefs a strong tongue lashing on the need to lend more money to small business on sensible terms. This will be very popular with small business. It is all part of the government’s renewed spin offensive. Readers of

In a letter to Saturday’s Telegraph, 15 business leaders, including Tim Martin and Julian Blackwell, called on the Government to “adopt an uncompromising stand against regulatory overkill.” Citing Open Europe’s report published last week on the cost of regulation, the leaders argue “Without fundamental reform, the regulation factories in Whitehall and Brussels will pr...

Steve Wynn, casino developer and CEO of Wynn Resorts, slams Obama as the anti-business, socialist President while on a company conference call! In a company conference call Steve Wynn rails at the President and the Obama administration for being anti-business, pro-redistribution of wealth and a "wet blanket" to business development and growth in the United States. Steve Wynn, in so many words, ter...

I do not always agree with business lobbies, who often argue the case for larger and well established businesses at the expense of innovation and new competitors, and who often favour bigger government than is ideal. Today the business voice seems united

The government will signal a big shift of attention towards the countryside today on the back of a report that shows a dramatic migration of business away from the towns of Britain. Housing, broadband and business support programmes will be stepped up to tap "unfulfilled potential output" reckoned by Whitehall and the government's rural advocate, Stewart Burgess, to be worth up to £...