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B1 |
3.5 |
Substantially support the
CBI’s Fit for the Future Campaign |
Actively support the team
co-ordinating the Campaign, launched successfully in Dec 98, to extend the
activities and coverage of best practice into key sectors of UK business.
Year 1 targets are: |
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2. Recruit at least 40 active Campaign Partners and 100 best practice champions. |
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3. Co-ordinate 3 partner events and a national best practice showcase attracting 850 participants. |
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4. Establish measurable targets and monitoring processes for each campaign activity. |
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5. Establish Campaign Helpline, Website and signposting services. |
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6. Agree with CBI the longer term targets for Year 2 and beyond. |
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B2 |
3.6 |
Ensure that 50,000
businesses every year undertake benchmarking or other best practice activity for
the first time. |
1. Research ways of determining the 98/99 baseline activity. |
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2. Develop the monitoring arrangements for 1999/2000 with national and local partners and sector bodies. |
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3. Report the interim findings and recommendations for necessary additional research activity with local partners together with Fit for the Future, the RDAs, European and sector funded activities. |
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4. Report findings from national survey of businesses and data collection from business support organisations |
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B3 |
3.9 |
Fund up to 10 proposals
from sectors to improve their supply chains, adapting the SMMT Industry Forum
model. |
1. Hold seminars to explain concept to DTI colleagues and other government departments by February 1999. |
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2. Devise assessment mechanism and criteria. |
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3. Hold seminars to explain the concept to other government departments. |
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4. Draft information for Trade Associations etc. to invite proposals. |
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B4 |
3.10 |
Publish a Tourism
Strategy |
1. Launch Tourism Strategy Document by February. |
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2. Launch a new grading scheme for hotels and guest houses to ensure consistent quality |
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3. Hold first high profile annual tourism summit |
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4. Implement re-focusing of resources onto priority markets. |
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5. Additional funds for London Tourist Board to market London as a destination and encourage the creation of a further 10,000 rooms |
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B5 |
3.14 |
Add £10 million to
Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) funds for spending on their
competitiveness priorities |
1. Consult RDAs on guidance on competitiveness. |
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2. Issue final guidance. |
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3. Discuss and agree RDA plans for spending competitiveness development fund in 1999/00. |
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4. Discuss and agree plans for spending funds allocated to London Development Partnership for work on competitiveness. |
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5. Agree RDA plans in subsequent annual corporate planning processes. |
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B6 |
3.15 |
Ask RDAs to review the
coherence and quality of business support in their area against local and
regional priorities in their economic strategies |
1. Issue draft guidance to RDAs on conduct of review by February 1999. |
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2. Issue final guidance to RDAs on conduct of review. |
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3. Receive final reports of RDAs. |
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4. Hold a series of bilateral meetings with RDAs to discuss their reviews of business support. |
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5. Receive RDA assessment of local boundaries for Learning and Skills Councils and Small Business Service local outlets |
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B7 |
3.15 |
Evaluate the
effectiveness of DTI business support in improving business practices |
1. Agree evaluation work programme by March 1999. |
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2. Make recommendations about methodology for monitoring business support practices for use in Public Service Agreement and Output Performance Analysis. |
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B8 |
3.16 |
Launch new Scottish
Enterprise and Highlands and Islands economic strategies. |
1. Strategies launched in January 1999. |
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2. SE Publish Corporate plan in May 1999 |
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Scottish Knowledge
Economy Task Force Report Contact: Gerard Kelly, Scottish Enterprise Tel: 0141 228 2182 e-mail: |
1. Report on implication of knowledge economy for economic development and for higher education in Scotland published by Scottish Executive, Scottish Enterprise, COSHEP and SHEFC. April 1999 |
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Launch of Scottish
Cluster Strategies Contact: Heather Sim, Scottish
Enterprise |
1. Action plans for Food Cluster and Semiconductor Cluster published in September 1999. |
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2. Action plan for Biotechnology Cluster to be published by end year 1999. |
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B9 |
3.17 |
In Wales, continue to implement
Pathway to Prosperity - A New Economic Agenda for Wales. |
Work is well in hand on
implementing all the initiatives set out in Pathway to Prosperity, including |
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2. Simplification of procedures for smaller grants. |
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3. Establishment of an all-Wales structure for the delivery of more focused and co-ordinated export services. |
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4. An Enterpreneurship Action Plan is being co-ordinated by the Welsh Development Agency, with the specific aim of helping to foster a stronger enterprise culture in Wales. |
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5..Work is also progressing on the strengthening of Business Connect and the establishment of a Wales Management Board. |
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6. Further Skills Wales study published and Employment & Training Action Group report published |
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B10 |
3.18 |
In Northern Ireland,
prepare a draft economic development strategy for consideration by the new
Northern Ireland assembly. |
The Strategy Steering Group published a report on its work in March 1999 entitled "Strategy 2010". This can be accessed on the internet (www.dedni.gov.uk) 1. Report published |
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2. Presentation made to Assembly members |
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B11 |
3.20 |
Refocus Regional Selective
Assistance more on high-quality, knowledge-based projects which provide
skilled jobs. |
1. Devlop proposals and give publicity to new quality focus. |
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2. Draft proposals and begin clearance State Aid aspects with European Commmission. |
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3. Launch new scheme. |
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Introduce a forward
looking Assisted Areas Map, taking account of recent consultation. e-mail: ken.kehoe@rsme.dti.gov.uk |
1 Draft proposals to European Commission on new Assisted Areas map. |
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2. Agree proposals with Commission. |
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B12 |
3.21 |
Look at specific ways to work more
closely with local government to support new investment and business
competitiveness. Tel: 020 7944
3569 e-mail: leigh.bura@odpm.gsi.gov.uk |
DTI and ODPM have considered the best way to implement this commitment. The following initiatives have resulted: Small Business Rate Relief Research published by the DOE
in 1995 shows rates are an especially heavy burden on small businesses The
Local Government Bill will introduce rate relief for small businesses. This
will be available to any business that declares to the local authority that
it occupies only the one property for which it is claiming relief. This makes
administration simple and will direct the relief at genuinely small
businesses, rather than those that occupy many small properties.
Growth Incentives The Chancellor's 2002 Pre-Budget Report announced the introduction of Growth Incentives whereby Local Authorities could retain a certain amount of revenue from rates arising from new development. |
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B13 |
3.32 |
Establish a further wave of
Business Link Centres of Expertise to provide local access to specialist
business support expertise and services. |
1. Agree support for 22 Centres of Expertise to be established this financial year. |
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2. Agree with RDAs, Government Offices and Business Link partnerships three year strategies (through to 2001/2002) for the development and spread of business support expertise. |
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B14 |
3.23 |
Increase the Invest in
Britain Bureau’s (IBB) focus on attracting high-value projects |
1. Issue guidance to IBB’s overseas teams. |
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2. . Ensure commitment is reflected in IBB’s internal management targets . |
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3. Review IBB’s marketing communications and messages. |
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4. Develop guidance further in consultation with overseas teams and UK partners |
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B15 |
3.24 |
Examine whether there is
scope to lower barriers to immigration that prevent entrepreneurs and skilled
professionals from coming to or remaining in the UK and welcome suggestions
from business. |
1. Hold initial interdepartmental group discussions to examine the scale of the problem. |
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2. Seek views and experiences from industry contacts and incorporate immigration and work permit issues into the Invest in Britain Bureau’s normal aftercare service. |
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3. DfEE Overseas Labour Service (OLS) to continue activity to update internal processes and meet increasing demand. |
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4. DfEE OLS to increase its contact with and feedback from employers and plan an independent customer satisfaction survey. |
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5. Interdepartmental group to review evidence from above actions and consider proposals for further action. |
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B16 |
3.26 |
Create the conditions
which encourage the formation and growth of clusters. |
Take forward action for
England, including: |
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2. Undertake further international and national research. |
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3. Keep under review how
policy can help encourage the development of clusters. |
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B17 |
3.28 |
Set up Ministerially-led
team to look at biotechnology clusters. |
1. Appoint experts to become members of biotechnology clusters team. |
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2. Hold brainstorming meetings of biotechnology clusters team, industry, planning authorities, Science Park managers, University authorities, etc. |
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3. Visits by biotechnology team to Cambridge, Oxford, Scotland and 2 US biotechnology clusters. |
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4. Information gathering visits by officials. |
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5. Report. |
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B18 |
3.26 |
Draw up Scottish
Enterprise action plans for clusters in the next financial year. Jeanetta Chapman |
1. Action Plans for 3 pilot clusters for the Oil and Gas, (Semiconductor, Biotechnology and Food and Drink) industries developed and approved |
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2. Publish 3-5 year implementation plans for joint action between industry, academic and Scottish Enterprise for these clusters. |
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3. Review whole approach to encouraging/enhancing clusters, and develop next phase of work in this area. |
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B19 |
3.28 |
Report on how to develop
"Genome Valley" in several regions of the UK by January 1999. |
1. First draft report. |
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2. Report and its 'key areas for action in the UK' circulated to all interested Ministers. |
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3. Publication of report |
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4. Implementation of Action Plan with other government departments, trade associations, companies and NGOs. |
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B20 |
3.28 |
Launch a major new
initiative to succeed Biotechnology Means Business (BMB) in the New Year |
1. Launch Bio-Wise, a new £13 million four year programme, to succeed BMB |
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2. EU State Aids Clearance |
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3. Hold first major programme event. |
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4. Complete discussions with intermediaries leading to ongoing programme of collaborative activities. |
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5. Start programme events, meetings etc on regional basis then on going throughout programme. |
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6. Launch of demonstrator project competition in Spring 1999. |
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7. Activities to mark first anniversary of programme, to include announcement of first successful projects |
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B21 |
3.29 |
Review how the planning
system can best help promote the needs of clusters |
1. Announce terms of reference and timetable for review. |
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2. Put project out to tender. |
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3. Consider project outputs. |
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B22 |
3.32 |
Support a pilot study to
identify the knowledge management needs of smaller businesses. |
1. Consultants complete review of existing knowledge management capabilities of SMEs in the South East by February 1999. |
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2. Project Managers (Business Link Kent) and DTI to discuss findings and agree recommendations. |
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3. Begin implementing proposals. |
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Last updated: Friday
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