Select committee: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee
Conclusion 31
15th Report – Small business strategy
Published 11 Feb 2026
Addressed to Department for Business and Trade
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Conclusion (the committee's words)
Careers advice services can play a central role in filling skills shortages and ensuring that young people enter professions in which they are genuinely interested. In order to be truly effective for small firms, the local skills system, and Local Skills Improvement Plans, must interface with the advice being given to young people at school. (Conclusion, Paragraph 119)
From: Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, 15th Report – Small business strategy (HC 1057), 11 February 2026
Government response
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