Trade and Industry written question – answered at on 18 November 2004.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry pursuant to the answer of 11 November 2004, Official Report, column 828W, on business support, what financial provisions her Department has made for subsidised consultancy in (a) Grant for Investigating an Innovative Idea and (b) Support to Implement Best Business Practice.
Financial provision to help small and medium enterprises to undertake subsidised consultancy projects to improve their competitiveness in the current financial year (2004–05) is:
(a) Grant for Investigating an Innovative Idea is—£1 million; and
(b) Support to Implement Best Business Practice—£8 million.
In both cases this includes the cost of a diagnostic process which helps the business develop its strategy and to formulate the right project.
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