Toby Perkins
Shadow Minister (Business, Innovation and Skills)
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many individual firms have received support from the Growth Accelerator Fund in each month since its inception.
Michael Fallon
The Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills , Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change
The GrowthAccelerator scheme provides intensive, expert business coaching and advice to help small businesses that have the potential for rapid growth. To date, 8,348 firms have received support from the scheme. A monthly breakdown is as follows:
| Number | |
| 2012 | |
| March | 1 |
| April | 19 |
| May | 60 |
| June | 88 |
| July | 221 |
| Augusts | 275 |
| September | 308 |
| October | 444 |
| November | 506 |
| December | 399 |
| 2013 | |
| January | 737 |
| February | 849 |
| March | 940 |
| April | 589 |
| May | 707 |
| June | 713 |
| July | 704 |
| August | 716 |
| September | 72 |
| Total | |
| 8,348 |
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