Have your say on the Enterprise Bill

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Have your say on the Enterprise Bill by submitting your views to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee which is going to consider this Bill.

Read the text of the Bill in full on the Parliament website.

Submit your written evidence to the Committee before 5pm on Thursday 25 February. Please note that when the Committee reports it is no longer able to receive written evidence and it may report earlier than the expected deadline.

Aims of the Bill

The Enterprise Bill is wide-ranging, and includes proposals to:

• Establish a Small Business Commissioner, to assist in payment disputes and signpost advice services for small businesses;
• Extend the Business Impact Target to include regulators, requiring them to assess the impact to business of their practices, and modify the way in which regulators engage with the Growth Duty and Regulators’ Code;
• Extend the Primary Authority Scheme;
• Introduce a target for the total number of apprentices working in public sector bodies, and protect the term ‘apprenticeship’;
• Introduce new measures intended to prevent the late payment of insurance claims to businesses;
• Allow the Valuation Office Agency to share business rates information about properties and ratepayers with local government;
• Reform the Business Rates Appeals system;
• Update the Industrial Development Act 1982; and
• Introduce a cap on ‘exit payments’ for public sector workers.

Progress of the Bill

You can follow the progress of the Bill on the Parliament website.

You can also read the explanatory notes to the Bill, which aim to explain what each part of the Bill will mean in practice; provide background information on the development of policy; and provide additional information on how the Bill will affect existing legislation in this area. They are not, and are not intended to be, a comprehensive description of the Bill.

This Bill has now been committed to a Public Bill Committee which will hold its first meeting on Tuesday 9 February. Further dates will be agreed once the Bill Committee has met, although Bill Committees usually meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The Public Bill Committee is expected to finish and report the Bill to the House by Thursday 25 February 2016.