Why did 'Help to Grow Digital' fail?

Why would SMEs turn down free money to help them digitise?

Penny Horwood
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 Why did 'Help to Grow Digital' fail?

A post-pandemic £296 million government scheme to subsidise software investment by SMEs announced in 2021, spent barely 7% of that by the time it was quietly abandoned in December 2022.

Initial numbers given by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) indicated that the scheme had managed to spend around £31 million. This would have meant that each successf...

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