The issues of unemployment, finance and skills were among the debated subjects at the first session of the Entrepreneurship Inquiry.
In its first session of three, the All Party Parliamentary Small Business Group Entrepreneurship Inquiry brought together the likes of Labour’s Lord Harrison and Conservative MPs Martin Vickers and Fiona Bruce.
The Inquiry’s first meeting tackled why women and mature people are less likely to apply for bank finance and small businesses’ struggles with accessing finance.
John Walker, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, says, ‘We have heard for so long that small businesses cannot access finance from the banks, but for some entrepreneurs even approaching the bank is not an option.
