FSB tackles start-up barriers with MPs (From Salisbury Journal)
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FSB tackles start-up barriers with MPs
5:19pm Thursday 2nd February 2012 in Business By Katharine Lawley
THE Federation of Small Businesses and the All Party Parliamentary Small Business Group say nearly a third of small businesses at start-up stage have difficulty finding suitably skilled staff.
Respondents to the FSB Voice of Small Business survey panel also said they found regulations onerous and had difficulty getting finance at start-up.
The FSB and APPSBG have launched an inquiry with Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, into entrepreneurship to see how these barriers can be removed. With 95 per cent of private sector businesses employing fewer than 20 members of staff, the inquiry will look at how firms can be encouraged to take on staff and how budding entrepreneurs can be supported in setting up a business in difficult times.
Ken Moon, chairman of the FSB’s Wessex Region, said: “Common issues at start-up stage include, finding suitably skilled staff, complex regulation and access to finance.”
