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Local Business Survey

The future of business in Britain today can be shaped by your views. Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor, and the Ladywood Liberal Democrats are seeking your views on what small businesses need to help keep them afloat in the current recession. Answering this survey will help us fight for small businesses. Please take just a few minutes to complete it for me. The details will be held in strict confidence and only aggregated results published.

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This is an anonymous survey. The information you provide below will not be linked to your personal details once you submit your answers. Please note that, even though your answers will not be linked to your personal details, your individual answers to the entire survey can be viewed together, in addition to aggregate information about all responses.

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Your Details

1. Your Name:

2. Your Business Name:

3. Your Position in the Business:

4. Address:

5. Email address:

6. Website:

7. Phone:

8. What Products or Services Do You Provide?:

9. Approximately how many employees do you have?:

The Credit Crunch and Recession

10. Generally speaking, how has the threat of recession and the credit crunch affected your business over the last year?:

	Turnover has reduced
	Profits have reduced
	The business is now running at a loss
	The credit crunch/recession has had no impact
	The credit crunch/recession is boosting my business

11. Which of the following best sums up how your banking facilities have changed in the last year?:

	Overdraft facilities have been reduced
	Overdraft facilities have been withdrawn
	Business loan has been refused
	Business loan has been "called in"
	Our banking facilities have not changed

12. Which of the following best sums up the impact of your bank's actions on your business cashflow?:

	We have no cashflow problems
	We may struggle to maintain our cashflow
	The continuing viability of our business is seriously impaired or in doubt
	Other (please specify)

13. In your experience, has the Government's bail-out of the banks benefited small businesses?:

	No, it has made things worse
	It has made no difference
	It has made a little difference
	It has helped a lot

Costs and taxation

14. How have energy, fuel or other raw material prices affected your business?:

	We have cut our consumption to try to save costs
	We have refused some business due to rising costs
	Rising costs have significantly cut our profits
	Rising costs are causing the business to run at a loss
	No affect

15. Has the 2.5% cut in VAT affected your business?::

	We do not expect it to have any impact
	Having to adjust our prices this year and next will increase our costs
	It is likely to boost demand for our products but have limited impact on our profits
	It is likely to boost demand for our products and increase our profits

16. Are the Government’s changes to business tax (postponing the rise in the small firms rate of corporation tax, and temporarily reducing VAT) sufficient?:

	Yes
	No

17. If no, which of the following elements of business taxation do you feel should be the top priorities for reform?:

	The small firms rate of corporation tax
	The general rate of corporation tax
	Local business rates
	Duties and/or VAT
	Employers' NI Contributions (or any other taxes on employment)
	The timing of tax bills
	Self-employment tax

Advice and support

18. Please tell us what government funded advice and/or support services (if any) do you make use of? E.g. Business Link:

Your outlook for next year

19. Generally speaking, how do you expect your business to perform over the next year, as a result of the recession?:

	Turnover is likely to reduce
	Profits are likely to reduce
	The business will run at a loss
	The credit crunch/recession should have no impact on my business
	The credit crunch/recession should boost my business

20. Please use this space to tell us of any other problems restricting your business and what could be done to help businesses such as yours to survive the recession and thrive?:

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