Businesses across the UK have been promised quicker and easier help, support, and advice through a new service announced by the Business Secretary to mark Small Business Saturday.
The Business Growth Service, launching in the first half of next year, is claimed to offer UK-wide business support with a revamped web offer developed to work in partnership with small businesses, local and devolved governments across the UK, with locally led delivery at its core, to ensure the service provides the information and resources smaller firms need from government.
Small businesses consistently say that they find the business support landscape fragmented and complex, with only 26% of UK SME employers reporting in 2023 to have sought external advice or information in the last year.
