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Smaller businesses across the UK are particularly vulnerable to business crime, which has often been considered the poor relation to other forms of crime. This report demonstrates the extent of small business crime, the type of crimes they experience, the average costs to individual businesses owners and the wider economic impact.

Report examines the impact of poor broadband and mobile connections on small businesses and lays out recommendations to improve the situation.

Report examining the impact of migrant entrepreneurs on the Scottish economy – finding that immigrant-led firms generate £13bn and 107,000 jobs.

How apprenticeship reforms have impacted small firms and what needs to change to make the system work better.

Prompt payment is an essential prerequisite for healthy and resilient supply chains. This is critical for smaller suppliers, where cash flow is often managed on tight margins.

Small businesses have grown increasingly frustrated at the slow progress that has been made in addressing the scourge of poor payment practice. This is not just a commercial problem – it is also ethically wrong.