Small businesses
All Standard Notes
16 Documents
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 10.06.2013 | Public procurement: small businesses and savings |
| This note briefly sets out the European and domestic public procurement rules before summarising Government efforts to use its procurement spend to support small businesses. It also sets out recent reforms to procurement processes which have aimed to drive down costs by centralising contracts with major government suppliers. | |
| 14.05.2013 | Late Payment of debts |
| This note provides a history of the UK's legislation on late payment of debts. | |
| 12.04.2013 | Business statistics |
| This note includes information on the number of businesses since 2001, small businesses, business by region, businesses by industry business births and deaths and information on female representation in business. It also features some discussion of the sources of business statistics and their coverage. | |
| 19.12.2012 | Small businesses and the UK economy |
| This note presents a statistical analysis of small businesses in the UK and information on small businesses government policy. | |
| 23.11.2012 | Businesses by constituency |
| This note provides some key statistics on businesses by parliamentary constituency. It includes a full constituency list showing the change between 2010 and 2012 and information on on businesses by industrial sector. | |
| 23.11.2012 | New Enterprise Allowance |
| The New Enterprise Allowance is a government scheme designed to help unemployed people who want to start their own business. | |
| 17.09.2012 | VAT Registration |
| All businesses must register for VAT if their turnover of taxable goods and/or services is above a given threshold. This note discusses how the registration threshold has been set in recent years and the debate there has been about whether the threshold is too high or too low. | |
| 13.07.2012 | Support for Small Business |
| Government policy on support for small business has been evolving in the current economic downturn. This note covers existing arrangements and schemes introduced under the previous administration. | |
| 25.04.2012 | Lending to business |
| This note sets out statistics available on lending to business and discusses recent trends in the data. | |
| 16.12.2011 | Business tenancies: rent reviews |
| Business tenancies: rent reviews. By Wendy Wilson. SN/SP/849. This note outlines the law and practice around rent setting for commercial lease agreements with emphasis on upwards-only rent reviews. | |
| 09.06.2011 | Apprenticeships and small businesses |
| This note contains information on the Government's policy regarding small businesses and apprenticeships, statistics on apprentices in small business, some more general statistics on apprentices in England, and some statistics on small businesses. | |
| 03.06.2011 | The economic crisis: policy responses |
| This note brings together the various elements of Government action to deal with the current economic crisis | |
| 12.05.2010 | Regulation of tattooing and body piercing businesses |
| This note summarises the law under which tattooing and body piercing business are licensed and regulated | |
| 08.05.2009 | Taxing small businesses: Budget 2000 to Budget 2006 |
| This historical note examines the difficulty of designing effective tax incentives for small companies, in the context of the four year history of the zero rate of corporation tax, introduced in April 2002. | |
| 08.05.2009 | Taxing small businesses: recent developments |
| This note discusses the reforms to taxing small businesses set out in the 2007 Budget - in particular, the phased increase in the small companies tax rate - before looking at the recent change in the Government's approach, signalled in the 2008 Pre-Budget Report. | |
| 21.10.2008 | Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme |
| Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme. By Louise Smith & Vincent Keter. SN/BT/827. |
All Research Papers
7 Documents
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 03.03.2009 | Small Business Rate Relief (Automatic Payment) Bill (Bill 13 of 2008-09) |
| The purpose of this Bill is to make the payment of rate relief for small businesses in England automatic. Currently, businesses have to apply to their billing authority once within each revaluation period (five years) to receive the relief during this period. | |
| 25.11.2008 | Small Business, Insolvency and Redundancy |
| HC Research Paper 08/87 Small Business, Insolvency and Redundancy | |
| 08.07.2008 | Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL] Committee Stage Report |
| 16.05.2008 | Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [HL] 2007-08 |
| Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill (HL) 2007-08. (Bill 103 of 2007-08). House of Commons Library Research Paper 08/46. | |
| 28.06.2004 | Small firms: Red Tape |
| Small firms: red tape. House of Commons Research Paper 04/52. | |
| 14.03.2001 | Regulatory Reform Bill (HL):background to red tape issues (Bill 51 of 2000-01) |
| Regulatory Reform Bill (HL):background to red tape issues (Bill 51 of 2000/01). House of Commons Library Research Paper 01/26. | |
| 02.04.1998 | Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Bill (HL) 1997/98 (Bill 132) |
| Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Bill (HL) 1997/98 (Bill 132). House of Commons Library Research Paper 98/42. |
