Start-up support gets thumbs down

More than 60 per cent of small businesses have given the current Government a thumbs-down over the level of support provided for start-ups, while less that 16 per cent of them believe that the Government is providing them with enough support to get up and running.

These are the key findings in a survey conducted by telecoms and telephony specialist Unicom.

“I think what is particularly significant is that a further 24 per cent said they had given up caring and were battling on regardless,” says Chris Earle, Operations Director of Unicom. “In effect, that is an 85 per cent vote of no confidence in the Government’s commitment and ability to support small business in Britain.

“The small business community is a massively accurate barometer of the overall opinion of the business community, because small business owners and operators are on the front line when it comes to the effects of government economic and business policy.

“Clearly small business feels that it is perhaps falling into the shadow of bigger business - in more ways than one.”