| Regional investment
Selective Finance for Investment in England
Who
Qualifies
Most
manufacturing businesses are eligible to apply, as are businesses
in service industries that supply a national rather than local
market. Applicants can be companies, partnerships or sole
traders. Grants are not available simply to transfer jobs from one
part of the country to another.
Assistance can be provided to:
- establish a new business;
- expand/modernise/rationalise an existing
business;
- set up research and development facilities;
- or
enable businesses to take the next step from
development to production.
European Commission
restrictions apply in some sectors, including synthetic fibre,
vehicles, steel, coal and agricultural products. Restrictions may
also apply where projects are in sectors of the UK market which
are already fully served and where support would simply displace
or reduce existing jobs in similar businesses elsewhere.
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