small businesses

9000 businesses in Fife and over a hundred thousand businesses in Scotland have benefited from the SNP's Small Business Bonus with tens of thousands of businesses seeing their business rates wiped out completely this coming year.

Cllr John Mason has visited businesses in the East End of Glasgow with Cabinet Secretary John Swinney as they talk to businesses about the benefits of the SNP's Small Business Bonus scheme and the potential for a Fuel Price Regulator.

A survey by The Forum of Private Business found that 84% of businesses in England and Wales backed the SNP's Small Business Bonus Scheme.

SNP Westminster Treasury spokesperson, Stewart Hosie MP, has backed separate demands by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce and the Federation of Small Business (FSB) today for the Treasury to use the massive oil tax windfall to provide relief from high prices at the pumps.

As Royal Mail reveal that profits have fallen by one-third, SNP Postal Affairs spokesperson, Mike Weir MP, has called on the UK Government to guarantee that the universal service obligation (USO) will not be watered down, and that there will be no threat to daily postal deliveries.