University of Nottingham (c)2005

quarterly trends data

Each quarter, the UK Business Adviser Barometer asks the following five core questions:

  • Has the number of clients seeking business advice increased over the past 3 months?
  • Over the past 3 months, to what extent have you witnessed a change in the number of people wanting to start up a business?
  • Has your clients ability to gain access to finance changed in the past 3 months?
  • Approximately what percentage of your client businesses find that there is a shortage of appropriately skilled labour?
  • In your estimation, what proportion of your clients' businesses will have ceased trading in the next 12 months as a result of the problems that they confront?

Clients seeking business advice

People wanting to start up a business

Access to finance

Shortage of appropriately skilled labour

Proportion expected to have ceased trading