Young: Removing barriers to business

David Young sets out his aims for the review he will undertake of the government’s relationship with small and medium sized enterprises:

“I’ll be focusing on what barriers government policy have put in the way of small business development and helping to advise on what can be done to make life easier for businesses and start to grow.

[To the Today programme]: “It’s in the government’s interest to see prosperous small firms. They’re 60% of the employment in the private sector, half the GDP.

“Yes government could use its power and could squeeze small businesses and get some cash in and we’d end up with no businesses. That’s not what government’s about.”