§ 43. Mr. Baldryasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give additional help to local enterprise agencies.
§ Mr. TebbitThe Government are already providing significant help to local enterprise agencies. The principal encouragement is tax relief on contributions by businesses to local enterprise agencies approved by my Department. Additionally, we are giving a grant of £75,000 to the business in the community organisation to support its work of establishing and sponsoring local enterprise agencies. Agencies are also encouraged to make full use of the information and counselling service of the small firms service and can obtain assistance through the regional organisation of my Department and the Department of the Environment.
With this help the Government have done much to create the right climate in which local enterprise agencies can succeed. However, the main thrust to develop local enterprise agencies must come from the private sector, and I welcome the way that the private sector has grasped the incentives we have offered to develop the local enterprise agency movement.
§ Mr. Peter Bruinvelsasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list all enterprise agencies active in England.
§ Mr. TrippierThe local enterprise agencies active in England are as follows:
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Local Enterprise Agencies North West Industrial Association Limited Mersey Docks Small Firms Association Limited Cavendish Enterprise Centre Limited North West Enterprise Agency Trust Enterprise Properties Limited Yorkshire & Humberside South Humberside Business Advice Centre Limited Calderdale Small Business Advice Centre Hull Business Advice Centre (ARC) Leeds Business Venture Limited Rotherham Enterprise Agency Limited Sheffield Business Venture Limited Kirklees & Wakefield Venture Trust Vale of York Small Business Association Limited Yorkshire & Humberside Industrial Association Limited Great Grimsby Small Firms Advice Bureau Hull Enterprise Limited West Midlands Birmingham Venture Coventry Business Centre Business Initiative (Stoke-on-Trent) The Shropshire Enterprise Trust Dudley Business Venture Walsall Small Firms Advice Unit Warwickshire Enterprise Agency Sandwell Enterprise Wolverhampton Enterprise Limited Midlands Industrial Association Limited Burton Enterprise Agency East Midlands Region Chesterfield (ARC) Business Advice Centre Corby Business Advice Bureau Derby and Derbyshire Business Venture Derbyshire Action Resource Centre The Leicestershire Business Venture Northants Industrial Promotion Unit (INPUT) Nottinghamshire Business Venture Nottinghamshire Action Resource Centre Northamptonshire CDA Limited Eastern Region Braintree Embryo Enterprise Scheme Colchester Business Enterprise Agency Forest Enterprise Agency Trust Great Yarmouth Business Advisory Service Harlow Enterprise Agency Ipswich Enterprise Agency Letchworth Garden City Business Centre Lowestoft Enterprise Trust Bedfordshire & Chiltern Enterprise Agency Norwich Enterprise Agency Trust Peterborough Enterprise Programme Stevenage Intitiative Limited Watford Enterprise Agency Limited Fens Business Enterprise Trust The Small Enterprise Development Agency Maldon Branch of Colchester BEA South East Region Blackwater Valley Enterprise Trust Enterprise Ashford Basingstoke & Andover Enterprise Centre Berkshire Enterprise Agency Gravesham Industry Limited Isle of Wight Enterprise Limited Maidstone Enterprise Agency Medway Enterprise Agency The Portsmouth Area Enterprise Southampton Enterprise Agency Swale Work Initiation Measure and Swale Workshop Action Project West Sussex Enterprise Agency East Hampshire Enterprise Milton Keynes Business Venture East Hampshire Enterprise Limited Hastings Business Ventures Limited South West Aid to Bristol Enterprise East Devon Small Industries Group Gloucestershire Enterprise Agency New Work Trust Co Limited Mid-Cornwall Industrial Group The South Hams Small Industries Group Restormel Local Enterprise Trust Limited Swindon Enterprise Trust West Cornwall Enterprise Trust Limited Somerset Small Industries Group Mendip & Wansdyke Local Enterprise Group Totnes Business Development Service North Devon Enterprise Group North Devon Manufacturers Business Advisory Service North Dorset Small Industries Group London Brent Business Venture Limited Brixton United Cold-harbour Lane Croydon Business Venture Limited The Fashion Centre Hackney Hackney Business Promotion Centre Hammersmith & Fulham Business Resources Limited Harrow Enterprise Agency Islington Small Business Counselling Service (ARC) Lambeth Business Advisory Service London Enterprise Agency New World Business Services Park Royal Enterprise Trust Tower Hamlets Centre for Small Business Limited Vauxhall Cross Amenity Trust Wandsworth Enterprise Development Agency Wandsworth Business Resource Centre Docklands Business Research & Information Centre Bromley Enterprise Agency Trust London Industrial Association Limited Newham Co-operative Development Agency