Reports & Surveys
Brian Sloan, Head of Business & Economic Policy: Welcome to the reports & surveys page. We are working on a wide range of policy issues and consultations and your views are very important to us. Through our research, we want to find out what our members think and what issues are affecting your business. We are here to represent the views of the Greater Manchester business community and get your voice heard by MP's and key decision makers. In order to do this we need to hear from you! You will notice the left hand side of this page is used for collecting your views, comments and experiences via online surveys and short questionnaires. All of the latest surveys can be completed quickly and simply by clicking on the links. In helping us, we can help you, by providing you with concise, in depth and up to date information in the form of summaries and full reports which you will find on the right of this page. All of these reports are based on the information you provide us with. Many of these reports and consultation responses are passed onto the Government, the Monetary Policy Committee, and local MP's. By helping us to help you we can make a real difference to your business, and Greater Manchester!
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Pensions Reform Questionnaire For some firms the former government's pension legislation, passed in 2008 will come into force in April 2012, after which there will be a staged introduction of the scheme to ALL businesses. Under the scheme a business must auto-enrol employees into a pension scheme and contribute a minimum of 3% of the employee's salary. Not only will this impose a significant direct payroll cost, indirect costs will also be substantial, particularly for businesses with high staff turnover or with workers on atypical contracts. Little, if any, work has been done on business reaction to these reforms. Will you employ less staff? Will you reduce staff hours? Will you try and use some of the loopholes to avoid the legislation? Please complete this short single sided questionnaire here to let us know your views by June 30th
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Please click here to take part |
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QES Q2 2010 Thank you for completing the survey for Q2 2010. Click on the link opposite to read the final report. |
Please click here to read the QES Report for Q2-10 |
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Carbon Reduction Group Survey The Greater Mancheter Carbon Reduction Group has been set up by the Chamber to co-ordinate the activities of our members that provide services in relation to energy reduction and carbon management. In order for the Group to identify the expertise within the Chamber's membership, we are asking members to complete a short questionnaire. Your views will help shape the work of the Group and we will be in touch with you on how our work is developing. |
Please click here to take part in our survey |
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QES Q1 2010 Thank-you to everyone that completed the survey this quarter. |
Please click here to read the QES Report for Q1 10 |
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Late Payment Survey As part of our research into the ongoing problem of late payment, we would be grateful if you could complete the following online survey that we have compiled in conjunction with Chambers of Commerce North West. The survey should take no more than five minutes to complete and all responses will be kept confidential. The results will be used to inform policy makers regionally and nationally and if appropriate, support calls for action to strengthen late payment legislation. The deadline for responses is 15th January. |
Please click here to take part in our survey |
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QES Q4 2009 |
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QES Q3 2009 This survey is now closed. If you would like to read the full Greater Manchester QES reports from previous quarters click here. |
To view the full report for quarter 3 2009 please click here. |
July '09 |
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Swine Flu Survey |
Thank you to everyone who completed this survey. |
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QES Q2 2009 This survey is now closed. |
Please click here for the full Q2 2009 report. To see the indicators spreadsheet for Q2 2009 please click here.
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May '09 |
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EU survey 2009 This survey is now closed. |
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Budget Survey Have your say on the announcements in the Budget by clicking here.
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If you would like a full run down of the Budget and how it affects your business visit our Budget 2009 page. |
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Enterprise Finance Guarantee Survey (EFG) In order to improve access to finance for small and medium-sized businesses, the Goverment launched the EFG scheme at the beginning of the year. For further info click here. We would like to hear about your experiences. Please click here to give us your feedback. |
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Salford Forest Park - Race Course Development |
32% of respondents do not support the plans. 4% of respondents do not know. |
Apr '09 |
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QES Q1 2009 The survey is now closed. |
Click here to read the full Greater Manchester report for Q1 2009. |
Mar '09 |
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Call for Action Survey In November 2008, Greater Manchester Chamber launched an action plan for tackling the recession. Greater Manchester Chamber recently surveyed members on each of the 12 proposals.
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