This study was designed to ‘sense check’ emerging estimates of the monthly administrative costs associated with personal accounts arrangements in SMEs. The principal aims were to:(a) Solicit views on the accuracy of estimates of time/costs based on internal government analysis.(b) Identify...

In December 2006 the Government announced proposals to promote private pension saving across UK workplaces. These proposals are explained in the Government’s White Paper, ‘Personal accounts: a new way to save’ . The proposed personal accounts system will operate from 2012 and will require...

1.1 The purpose of this paper is to present the Evaluation Framework that will structure, support and guide the evaluation research which will be carried out to evaluate the Welland SAP Pathfinder (“the Pathfinder”). The starting point for the development of the Framework is the National and...

National, regional and local partners from the Welland worked together to develop the Pathfinder Project (subsequently re-named the Turnpike Project). The main partners (Defra, Small Business Service and emda) agreed that the project would concentrate on the delivery of services for rural...

This review of the empirical and theoretical literature was commissioned by the Small Business Service (Department for Trade and Industry). Our brief was to consider existing research that has examined the causes and the impact of economic churn on productivity, employment and ultimately...

The main objective in encouraging a more dynamic start-up market is to boost productivity and economic growth by strengthening business support networks and creating an environment that encourages and supports entrepreneurial activity.The benefits of dynamic start-up market extend beyond the...