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Jones to review entrepreneur help

Television Dragon Peter Jones is to spearhead a review into the support available for budding entrepreneurs, Skills Secretary John Denham has announced.

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.”

John Denham said: “Besides being one of this country’s most successful entrepreneurs, Peter Jones has a substantial record of encouraging entrepreneurship education.

“He is heading up the National Skills Academy for Enterprise. So I’m delighted that he has agreed to lead the review and to apply his experience and expertise to helping me ensure that DIUS plays its full part in laying the foundations of Britain’s future economic success.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .