Dan Byles Visits Coleshill Business Centre - Entrepreneurs Get Thumbs Up

Dan Byles praised local entrepreneurial spirit this week when he visited the newly opened Coleshill Business Centre in Coleshill Town Hall and met three local budding business people. Coleshill Business Centre was opened in May as part of the Institute of Applied Entrepreneurship at Coventry University, with support from Coleshill Town Council and with funding from Advantage West Midlands.

The Centre has renovated the first floor of the Town Hall, and provides a low cost environment for local residents to develop new business ideas as well as expert advice and support.

After his visit, Dan said: "I was delighted to see the facilities the Business Centre has to offer, and to meet with three local residents who are making use of the facilities to develop new business ideas.

"As a nation, we rely on small and medium sized businesses to drive innovation and to create employment. It is essential that entrepreneurs are supported and not strangled with red tape and high taxes.

"I was brought up by an entrepreneurial single mother and spent my Saturdays working for my pocket money in the family shop. So I understand the difficulties small businesses face, and I am very pleased that Coleshill now has this facility to help new businesses start with a solid footing.

"The Conservative Party is committed to ending the unfair restrictions on people starting a business in social housing, and to make it easier for people to set up new enterprises by cutting the time it takes to open a new business. We will also reduce small company corporation tax rates to 20p; to make small business rate relief automatic in England, saving small firms up to £1,260 per year; and to abolish tax on the jobs created by new businesses in the first two years of a Conservative Government.

"That fact is that it has become harder to set up a business and to employ people under this Government. We will change that."