TELEVISION Dragon Peter Jones is to spearhead a review into the support available for budding entrepreneurs, Skills Secretary John Denham announced today.
Help that already exists ranges from the “Flying Start” programme, which helps graduates set up their own businesses, to training in tax law, employment law, book-keeping and accounts for small businesses.
The star of BBC’s Dragons’ Den and chief executive of Phones International Group has been asked by Mr Denham to lead the review which will examine how this can be developed.
Jones said: “I am personally passionate about raising the nation’s entrepreneurial capability and aspirations.”
Those behind the initiative said that anecdotal evidence suggests that more people are considering starting their own business as a response to the recession.
