Cameron's StartUp Loans are unlikely to create jobs or growth

Posted By Neil Lee

28 May 2012

David Cameron has today announced StartUp Loans, a £2,500 loan to help young people start their own business. Schemes like this aim to address economic problems (the double dip recession) and social ones (high youth unemployment) simultaneously.

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Finance for high growth firms: EIS and beyond

Posted By Neil Lee

28 September 2011

Brussels has given the Treasury the go-ahead to expand the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS). By reducing the tax investors pay when backing high-risk companies, it’s designed to increase investment in them. The government argues the scheme will create more high growth firms: the seven per cent of firms who create half of all new jobs.

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