APPG for Entrepreneurship Digest: August 2022

It’s a shorter digest than usual this month as Parliament is currently in Recess. But just as MPs continue to work in their constituencies over the Summer, we are busily preparing for Parliament to return with a series of papers and events.

We are launching our long-awaited paper on Space Startups and Scaleups in the House of Lords on Sept 8th at 9am. The UK space sector has nearly quadrupled since 2000 to £16.4 billion in income, employing over 45,000 people, with satellites underpinning £360 billion per year of wider economic activity. Attend the event to find out how we can support space startups and scaleups to deliver on the government’s grand ambitions for the sector. This event is for MPs, Peers and space entrepreneurs. Contact us to request a place.

We have a Call for Evidence on SME productivity open till September 1st. We want to know what is the best way to improve the productivity of Britain’s small-and medium sized enterprises?

This Call for Evidence will feed into an APPG for Entrepreneurship Briefing Paper, which will review recent progress on the Government’s business productivity agenda and look at programmes such as Help to Grow: Management, Digital and the Business Basics programme. We plan to draw on insights from entrepreneurs and organisations which support them to identify what entrepreneurs want from the programmes, whether they are working, whether they are being properly evaluated, and if such programmes are the best way to improve productivity among the UK’s business population. (Send all submissions as PDFs to philip@tenentrepreneurs.org)

We are also starting a project looking at tax breaks for equity investment. In a few weeks, we will be releasing a call for evidence looking at the impact of reliefs such as the Enterprise Investment Scheme, Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, and Venture Capital Trusts. In fact, we have a virtual roundtable Tomorrow at 11am that you may want to attend. Just drop us an email to register your interest. If you want to find out more and get details on the Call for Evidence as it’s launched then I recommend signing up to The Entrepreneurs Network’s Friday Newsletter.