The FPB’s policy representative, Matthew Goodman, said: “The next few months will be critical as the Government drafts its enterprise framework, and the small business forum must play a role in deciding how that framework is to be implemented.”
He added: “Provided that the right changes are made, there is a real opportunity to give the forum, and the small firms it represents, a very real say in shaping the next ten years of enterprise policy.”
In October 2007, government adviser and entrepreneur Sean Taggart resigned from the forum because he believed it had failed to give small firms a voice in Whitehall.
