House Of Commons Business Innovation And Skills Committee The Retail Sector Volume I Hc 168 I

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215068903
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book House of Commons - Business, Innovation and Skills Committee: The Retail Sector: Volume I - HC 168-I written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee calls for a wholesale review that goes beyond the administration of business rates to examine whether retail taxes should be based on sales rather than the rateable value of a property; whether retail needs its own system of business taxation; and how frequently revaluations should take place. In the interim, the Committee calls for a six months business rates amnesty for businesses occupying empty properties. This would go further than the 50% reduction announced in the Autumn Statement and would encourage new businesses to the High Street. The Committee also recommends that in the interim the Government review whether business rates are more appropriately linked to CPI or RPI and calls for annual increases to be linked to a 12 month average of either RPI or CPI, with a cap at 2%. This would replace the current link to a monthly snapshot of RPI. The Government should provide information on how and how much of the money allocated to the Portas Pilots is being spent. This follows concerns that much of the money allocated to the pilots has not been spent. The Government is also urged to outline the results of its latest STEM skills analysis and outline the action it will take to tackle any skills shortages. The retail sector also needs to encourage more staff to be trained at Apprenticeship Level 3 and above, and consider developing language skills to enhance the international consumers' experience

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215068910
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book House of Commons - Business, Innovation and Skills Committee: The Retail Sector: Volume II - HC 168-II written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additional written evidence is contained in volume 3, available on the Committee website at www.parliament.uk/bis

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 021507890X
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book HC 249 - Business-University Collaboration written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government must commit to a 3 per cent target of GDP of research and development (R&D) spending by 2020 to ensure the UK doesn't lag behind international competitors. The BIS Committee finds that more than 30 years of under-investment in R&D has left the UK trailing countries such as the USA, Germany and France in science and innovation spending, threatening the opportunities for economic growth offered by the research excellence of the UK's world class university system. The Committee found the Catapult network has played a valuable role in harnessing the commercial benefits of science and innovation research. The Committee calls on the Government to back the recommendations of the recent Hauser Catapult review and expand the Catapult Network from the seven current centres to 20 by 2020 and 30 by 2030 and increase funding to Innovate UK. The Government needs to do more to bring businesses and universities together to realise the benefits of the cutting-edge research taking place across the country. The Committee recommends that the Government establish a respected and impartial way to measure and evaluate the success of its initiatives to increase R&D activity, such as by reintroduction of the R&D scoreboard. These measures, alongside an ambitious long-term vision for the innovation system, should be built into the forthcoming Science and Innovation strategy.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215544377
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Pub companies written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous report on this subject was HC 26-I, session 2008-09 (ISBN 9780215530127) by this Committee's predecessor the Business and Enterprise Committee

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215556493
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book Government assistance to industry written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report from the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee concludes that while the Government has proposed a number of interventions which have the potential to help promote economic growth, it does not add up to a comprehensive growth strategy. The report highlights the fact that in the absence of clear performance measurements the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' strategy runs the risk that economic success could mask failures in policy while economic hardship could overshadow excellent strategies or interventions. The report argues that different sectors of the economy have different requirements when it comes to government support and that the Department will have to develop a strong awareness of the needs of individual sectors and have the flexibility to react to them if we are to build capability across all sectors of the economy. While the Government's growth strategy appears to move in this direction, evidence from three sectors has shown that much work needs to be done. The banks' role in providing finance to business is crucial to the success of the economy. The report believes that the agreement struck between Government and the banks (Project Merlin) is a step in the right direction but the agreement must be shown to deliver real benefits to industry. If the economic recovery is to be sustained then both Government and banks need to move quickly from rhetoric to meaningful of support to the private sector.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215559722
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Government assistance to industry written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Response to HC 561 (ISBN 9780215556493)

Author : Great Britain: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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ISBN 13 : 9781474124058
Total Pages : 18 pages
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Download or read book Government Response to the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee's Eleventh Report of Session 2014-15 written by Great Britain: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated July 2015. Print and web pdfs available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications. Government response to HC 804, session 2014-15 (ISBN 9780215084521) Web ISBN=9781474124065

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
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ISBN 13 : 9780215543042
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book Work of the Committee 2008-09 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work of the Committee 2008-09 : Second report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal Minutes

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills
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ISBN 13 : 9781474117050
Total Pages : 21 pages
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Download or read book Government Response to the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Report on Business-University Collaboration written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated March 2015. Government response to HCP 249, session 2014-15 (ISBN 9780215078902), published 01/12/14. Print and web pdfs available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications Web ISBN=9781474117067

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215544544
Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Department for Business, Innovation and Skills written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2000 the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (the Department) and its predecessors have invested public money, alongside private investors, in a series of funds managed by private sector fund managers. The funds provide support to small businesses unlikely to receive support from other sources. The programme currently comprises 28 funds. By December 2009 taxpayers had contributed £338 million, alongside £438 million from private investors. The Department's intervention in the venture capital market was experimental and risky, yet it did not set clear, prioritised objectives for the funds, including the expected economic benefits, and did not set targets at the outset for expected rates of return. The Department did not begin to properly evaluate the progress of its early funds until late 2008 and, to the concern of the Committee, did not publish any information on the funds until December 2009. The evidence suggests that the funds are underperforming. As at December 2008 the Regional Venture Capital Funds, the largest category of early funds, showed negative returns and the average rate of return was minus 15.7 per cent whilst private European venture capital funds of a similar size had an average rate of return of minus 0.4 per cent. The Department has not done enough to curtail the high costs of managing the funds. Fees for the Regional Venture Capital Funds have totalled £46 million compared to the £130 million invested. Substantial fees have been paid to fund managers even though the performance of the funds has been poor.