- Reference: 2009/3702
- Question by: Len Duvall OBE
- Meeting date: 16 December 2009
Small businesses are finding the Compete4 funding structure impossible to navigate as it is too bureaucratic and, since it requires them to employ specialist bid writers to help them obtain funds, they are often 'priced out' of the process. Do you recognise this view and, if so, please inform me what you propose to do to enable small businesses to access the available funds?