Catalogue description Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Small Firms Division: Registered Files (SJ Series)

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Reference: FV 96
Title: Department of Trade and Industry and successors: Small Firms Division: Registered Files (SJ Series)
Description:

Thi series contains registerd files (SJ series) of the Small Firms Division.

The files in this series are those of the Small Firms Service which offered various schemes to assist small companies:- the Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme, the Support for Marketing Scheme, tax holidays and the Business Expansion and Business Start Up schemes. General counselling and advice was also offered along with skills development which would link small firms with universities:- The Teaching Company Scheme, the Small Business Managers Teaching Programme and the New Enterprise Development Project. Small firms were also offered assistance by the British Technology Group - a partnership between the National Research Development Council, the National Enterprise Board and the private sector to promote innovation. There are also records of the Cooperative Development Agency which promoted local cooperatives and which was wound up in 1990.

Date: 1975-1990
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SJ Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of Industry, Small Firms Division, 1974-1983

Department of Trade and Industry, Small Firms Division, 1983-1985

Physical description: 96 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 2012 Department of Trade and Industry

Selection and destruction information: Selected under collection theme 2.2.1.2 management of the economy and paragraph 8.1 of the OSP on Industrial Policy.
Accruals: Further accruals are expected.

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