Help to Grow Scheme

(asked on 19th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 20 October 2021 to Question 56300, on Help to Grow Scheme, what plans the Government has to increase participation in the Help to Grow Management scheme; and what assessment his Department has made of the likelihood of that scheme’s participation target being achieved.


Answered by
Paul Scully Portrait
Paul Scully
This question was answered on 29th November 2021

We are working to increase SME participation in the Help to Grow: Management programme through:

– A national communications and marketing campaign to raise awareness of the programme to relevant SMEs.

– Working closely with key stakeholders (such as the Banks, Trade Associations and Business Representative Organisations) to promote to SMEs in their networks and drive them to participate in the programme.

– Optimising the customer journey to ensure SMEs that are interested go onto to sign up for a course.

Help to Grow: Management aims to support up to 30,000 small and medium-sized (SME) businesses leaders over the lifetime of the programme. We ensure we are effectively using all our levers to reach this target and keep our progress towards achieving this under regular review.

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