{"id":42504,"date":"2020-09-24T15:35:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/?p=42504"},"modified":"2022-03-30T15:40:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:40:20","slug":"chancellors-new-measures-leave-3m-entrepreneurs-high-and-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/chancellors-new-measures-leave-3m-entrepreneurs-high-and-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"Chancellor\u2019s new measures \u201cleave 3m entrepreneurs high and dry\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>News release \u2013 for immediate use<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>24 September 2020<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Millions of early-stage entrepreneurs and limited company directors \u201cthrown to the wolves\u201d despite extensions to support schemes<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chancellor Rishi Sunak\u2019s \u2018winter economy plan\u2019 still excludes millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners from support, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\">Enterprise Research Centre<\/a> has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Key measures announced by Mr Sunak today [24 September 2020] include the new Job Support Scheme to replace the \u2018furlough\u2019 measures introduced in March, running for six months from November.<\/p>\n<p>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will similarly be extended \u2013 but the two lump-sum grants self-employed people will be able to apply for will be significantly less generous, equivalent to 20% of average monthly profits, down from 80% in the earlier rounds. Mr Sunak also announced longer repayment periods for government-backed loans to businesses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Hart, Professor of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Aston Business School and Deputy Director of the Enterprise Research Centre,<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Chancellor\u2019s Job Support Scheme will come as a relief to many employers and their staff. But the six-month extension to wage subsidies at a time when the pandemic is still far from over goes nowhere near as far as countries like France and Germany, whose similar schemes have been extended into 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLet\u2019s remember that in this same timeframe, businesses are also facing the growing prospect of a fractious and messy end to the Brexit transition period.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s also concerning that the extension to the Self Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) is far less generous than earlier, despite more stringent lockdown measures threatening demand across the economy. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe glaring omission yet again is the plight of the three million early-stage entrepreneurs, freelancers and limited company directors who\u2019ve been left high and dry as their incomes have evaporated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese entrepreneurs and the work they do are vital to supply chains and entire industries. If they go down, the tremors will reverberate across the economy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe know from the recession that followed the 2008 financial crisis that entrepreneurs starting new businesses were critical to subsequent job creation and economic recovery. By throwing them to the wolves, there\u2019s a real concern we\u2019ll see subdued business dynamism for a long time to come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes to editors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Enterprise Research Centre <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ERC is the UK\u2019s leading independent research institute on growth, productivity and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Innovate UK, The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and the British Business Bank (BBB).<\/p>\n<p>The ERC is producing the new knowledge around SMEs that will allow us to create a business-friendly environment nationwide, grounded in hard evidence. We want to understand what makes entrepreneurs and firms thrive so we can spread the lessons from best practice and make the UK a more successful economy.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre is led by Professors Stephen Roper of Warwick Business School and Mark Hart of Aston University, Birmingham. Our senior researchers are world-class academics from both Aston and Warwick Universities as well as from our partner institutions which include Queens University Belfast and the University of Strathclyde.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\">http:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For further information or to arrange interviews, please contact James Tout at ZPB Associates on 07989 610 276 or email <a href=\"mailto:james.tout@zpb-associates.com\">james.tout@zpb-associates.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News release \u2013 for immediate use 24 September 2020 \u00a0Millions of early-stage entrepreneurs and limited company directors \u201cthrown to the wolves\u201d despite extensions to support schemes Chancellor Rishi Sunak\u2019s \u2018winter economy plan\u2019 still excludes millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners from support, the Enterprise Research Centre has warned. Key measures announced by Mr Sunak&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/chancellors-new-measures-leave-3m-entrepreneurs-high-and-dry\/\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":42506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,75],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42505,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42504\/revisions\/42505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}