Intervention and the Battle for Better Business

A critique of business support in the United Kingdom including exclusive interview with Lord Heseltine

Intervention by Business Think
  • Home
  • Book Synopsis
  • Chapter Profiles
  • Heseltine
  • Reception
  • Author
  • Buy Book
  • Contact

11: No Wrong Door (2007)

21st June 2015 By Elliot Forte

Alistair Darling and business support“I think the Regional Development Agencies are far better placed than the Small Business Service to provide front line services. I took the view not just that we need to simplify the number of things that we offer people (in business); I would also like to reduce the number of places that you get them. ”
Alistair Darling. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (2006)

In 2005, the Government’s Annual Small Business Service Survey declared that over 50% of small businesses “want government help, but struggle to find their way through the maze of provision.”

This Chapter challenges the Government’s resulting Business Support Simplification Programme (BSSP) and their attempt to establish a ‘no wrong door’ approach.

In less than four years, the Government had shrunk over two thousand initiatives into a portfolio of just thirteen business support products.

Chapter 11 asks whether this policy led to a reduction in specialist knowledge and diminished the impact of Government funded help for businesses.

Filed Under: Chapter Profiles

Copyright

Chapter Profiles

01: Shoots and Roots (1992)

02: Business Link Goes National (1994)

03: A Toolkit of Competitiveness

04: Knowledge Driven Economy (1997)

05: Quality Marks (1999)

06: Whiz Kids and Failed Business People

07: A Small Business Service (2001)

08: Best in Class (2004)

09: Help Yourself

10: Localism (2005)

11: No Wrong Door (2007)

12: Recess Stress (2008)

13: Dragon’s Breath (2008)

14: Prisk End (2010-2011)

ORDER PAPERBACK at Amazon.co.uk

Buy Book

Reception

“For many reasons, this is a valuable book, and it is an important innovation for the policy field in itself. It will remain a valuable historical resource.”

Review by Professor R Bennett MA PhD FBA. Emeritus Professor. Cambridge University

Contact

We respond to all contact within 24 hours.

Elliot Forte (Author)
Email: elliot.forte@businessthink.co.uk

COPYRIGHT © 2015 Business Think Ltd. The right of Elliot Forte to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Copyright owner.