FAQs

The Business Support Simplification Programme (BSSP) is a national programme of Business Support Simplification was announced in the Government's 2006 Budget and is managed by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR). BSSP is designed to address the confusion that individuals and companies can experience with publicly-funded business support.

Building on our work to date, BSSP aims to reduce the number of business support interventions from more than 3,000 to less than 100 by 2010. To deliver this, the government has worked with RDAs, local authorities, users and other stakeholders to develop a portfolio of 18 business support products which will be introduced between now and 2010.

One North East has been commissioned by BERR to lead the implementation of business support simplification in the North East, working with a wide range of partners to deliver the region's vision.
 

Business & Enterprise North East has now completed the formal acquisition of the North East Regional International Trade Office. NERITO operates the UKTI service in the region and has responsibility for providing overseas trade and investment support for businesses in our region.

This integration of overseas trade and investment into BE-NE's wider portfolio of business support products will further simplify business support in the region. Helping more businesses to access a wider range of services. It will also substantially improve the comprehensiveness of coordinated support available for North East based businesses who have the potential to trade or invest overseas.