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Petition update, 26 February 2009

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More than 99% of businesses in the UK are small. We, the undersigned, petition the Government to Think Smallest First when making changes to regulations and taxes which will affect small firms.

If governments and decision-makers consider the impact of new and changing legislation on the smallest businesses, the ones with up to ten employees, which struggle the most with the regulatory burden and the associated costs, the resulting regulations should not place unnecessary burdens on ANY business.

For more information, visit www.thinksmallestfirst.org

The Forum of Private Business represents 25,000 small and medium-sized businesses across the UK. We have launched the ‘Think Smallest First’ campaign to highlight the need for a change of culture within government. All too often, decisions are taken which create huge burdens for small firms and incur disproportionate costs, whilst larger firms absorb the cost of changes and remain competitive.

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• Jeremy Cullen
• W.L. Stock
• Jean Acker
• Roy Pierce
• Beverley Okill
• E Huggins
• jonathan russell
• paul flatman
• JULIE TOOZE
• Geoff Cox
• Neil Hrycenko
• Lorraine Stanton
• Terence Francis
• Judith Bradbury
• Laura Hicks
• peter greathead
• Allen Spooner
• Jane Sheldon
• Cliff J Freeman
• Derek B Fitzgerald
• Andrew House
• george barrie
• Richard Dover
• Janet Hodson
• Mike Lawn
• Christine Robertson
• Susannah Wight
• Nicolas Dreyfus
• Christpher Knights
• Rod Bullough
• Elizabeth Catton
• Matthew James
• Basil Knight
• Paul Dunbavin
• M.Richardson
• Janice Ross
• Shirley Bishop
• Don McDuff
• mark jenner
• John Lewcock
• David Bell
• Gary Orriss
• T. Conlon
• Ian Culbert
• Kenneth McConey
• Rachel Hicks
• Ann Rimes
• Peter Welch
• Jan Cutler
• Peter Uphill
• fran green
• Christine Watson
• eddie watts
• Ken Abell
• Valerie Coker
• Sue Robinson
• Paul Wood
• Mike Welsh
• Robert Graham Nalty
• Alan J Neilson
• Elizabeth M Neilson
• alan harris
• Laura Diane Baker
• Trevor Foster
• S Smith
• Alan Fisher
• Michael Kagan
• Robert Yates
• Colin Sadler
• Beverley Tankard
• Adrian Butcher
• Peter Amos
• A. K. M. Heating Ltd
• Carol Ann Guilford of HR Soltions (Consultancy) Ltd
• John Smith
• JOHN MORLEY
• Richard Clayton
• MADELINE SHEPHERD
• Wayne Rchens
• Delia Caple
• Cris Fernandes
• Dudley Harrop
• Robert Clark
• Fergus Wiseman
• Paul postill
• Mary Anson
• Paula Jasper
• Sharon Bigg
• Paul Sayer
• Elizabeth Hinton
• Hugh Byron
• steve hilliard
• Simon Manning
• andrea dewsbery
• Barbara Crawford
• Antony Neufeld
• Henry Roberts
• Bill Jack
• Danny Durant
• Dharm Tanna
• Mr L.E. Smith
• kate o'leary
• Donald MacKenzie
• kieron Deane
• Timothy Clifford
• Robert Malcolm
• TERRENCE MESSENGER
• Derek Benn-Thomas M.D
• Michael D Hatton
• Peter Rees
• Sally Blundell
• GERRIT DE VISSER
• Fiona Taheri
• Liz Phillips
• Joanna Riley
• Shirley Wright
• Michael Harwood
• KARIM FATEHI
• Ferzan Zola
• Richard Bird
• Susan Carver
• Marie Winter
• Nick Du Val
• Rory Speirs
• Alan Tozer
• Sue Mulvey
• D Haddon
• Sue Williamson
• Maureen Gordon, Compupaye Bureau
• M S Sanderson
• Mark Sutcliffe
• Leandro Ulisse
• Ruth Cotton
• John Dallimore
• Peter Eyre
• Philip McWilliam
• morag manson
• Anne Caldecott
• Sarah Buckley
• simon van-evelingen
• Anne Louise McLean
• Bill Croft
• Ivor Mathers
• Philip Havard
• A J Lyall
• Jenny Marchant
• Barry Dixon
• Derek Smith
• Adrianne Fitzpatrick
• Jen Rowlands
• Tim Greenfield
• Elizabeth Hill
• James Bryan
• Neil Christmas
• Ian M Birch
• Catherine Bywater
• A. Howard
• Simon Pryce
• Peggy Chung
• Paul Martin Best
• Margaret M Rae
• tallat haq
• Mrs Teresita Carter
• Steve Brown
• Simon Lackford
• ian davies
• Alison Hill
• Vanessa Lackford
• C F Aubin
• peter waterhouse
• David J Bretel
• Clive Davis
• Lee Ballard
• jane gregory
• Sandra Head
• Nigel Richards
• Pauline Collins
• Henrietta Boex
• Simon Jones
• raymond powney
• Gary Bridgewood
• Edmund Bennett
• john michael brougham
• Sandeep Sud
• Chris Bartram
• Nicholas Blamey
• Alistair Walton
• Scott Bertram
• John Mulhall Business Development and Plastics Consultant
• Peter Elliot
• Robert Stapley, Thermaplate Ltd.
• matt whittingham
• *Tony bennett
• Sedat Nafi
• WILLIAM TO
• yr marjoram
• Ian Ashcroft
• Timothy Birt
• Mike Abrahams
• Mark McKinney
• joe lacey
• rod raylor
• David Coleman
• Jennifer Morgan
• TONY FULLER
• Stuart Hamilton
• F S Swindells
• Richard Hibbert
• ann young
• alan norton
• Richard George
• Diana Ryan
• terry easey
• Linda McBride
• Geoff Holland
• jeffrey horsfield
• Scott Dunkley
• deborah horsfield
• Junko Maria Furugori
• lesley bebb
• C Goddard
• David Gore
• Neil Shuttleworth
• Julio J Faria
• Vikki Austen
• Leslie Cupitt
• Patricia Rogers
• David Hall
• Chris Hawkswell
• Nick Hewitt
• Alan Clayton
• Fred Ayres
• Justin Brandon
• paul hynam
• Nigel Phelps
• Laurence Wilbraham
• Windmill Markets Ltd
• Kenny Allison
• Victoria Robertshaw
• Howard Bennett
• paula cousins
• David Howes
• Christopher Gurney
• kevin bullock
• Michael Holding
• Stephen Sims
• Lesley Athey of Micron Hydraulics Ltd
• Dee Shepherd
• Chris Wills
• Rose Doherty
• TERESA JUNE JOHNSTON
• Matthew Goodman
• Nigel Taylor
• Graham Smith
• Janet Goymer
• LESLEY BURRELL
• adrian sole
• R A Burgess
• Alan Goymer
• JAMES READ
• janet galloway
• Stephen Pearce
• alan piper
• Penelope Hackett
• Peter H McGuire
• Kristina Dogge at Simply Languages Ltd
• Peter Grove
• Jeremy Marchant
• Roger Catte
• Jonathan Baker
• Jeremy Sanders
• Alan Woods
• Alison Murray
• Libby Virgoe
• Kath Chapman
• warwick hulme
• robert laird
• Peter Gilpin
• Michael Dudney
• Barbara Elizabeth Saunders
• J D Bradley
• David Charles Budd
• maureen barret
• Derek Morgan
• Simon Newton Chance
• Paul Orchard
• Shaun McCarthy
• David Nicholls
• Catherine Cole
• S Goldsmith
• Jeanette Wood
• GILLY ROBINSON
• roger purkiss
• John Dowson
• Mr Stephen Housego
• G McInally
• Deborah Henry
• Paul Hodgson
• Peter Francis Cheesman
• anna boldry
• Stephen Yates
• Paul Yardley
• Debi Wilkinson
• lucie clayton
• Lawrence Baker
• Kay McMahon
• Mike Clayton
• Keith Adams
• David J Elliott
• Felicity Shaw Browne
• David Griffiths, Help @ Home Computers
• Hugh A Nicol
• lorely burt MP
• Robert J Robinson
• Lisa Armstrong
• Nigel Bruce
• david hawksworth
• Karen A Murphy
• Edward Taylor
• Noel Guilford
• Nick Robinson
• Nicholas Goulding
• Andrew Wardle
• David Penn
• Paul Eaton
• Fraser Mackay
• david chesters
• Richard Smith
• Aline Delawa
• Steve Cartwright
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• Susan Martin
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• Jane Caven
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• Lynnette love
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• Naasha Lewis
• John Shipperley
• Steve Bennett
• Alison Brennan
• Gillie Westwood
• I Thomas
• Sue Terpilowskii
• Sharon Scammell
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• John Wylie
• Eleanor Bullimore
• Charlotte Cross
• Jane Lloyd
• Linda Whitaker
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• Paul Croman
• dennis hoare
• graeme yeates
• Marie-Cecile Boulle
• ian smith
• Jamie Starbuck
• David James Balfour
• Steven Shepperd
• Peter Woodier
• Helen Gorin
• Grant Chapman
• william harry lyon-smith
• Daniel Steel
• Pauline Birdsall
• john worthington
• Phil Phillips
• Hugh Wates
• A F Andrews
• william Sanders
• Emma Cliffe
• Bob Webster
• Anne Jackson
• Stephen Peace
• Kevin Stratford
• John Cardwell
• Mary Gaskell
• IAN A MAUL
• lilian leah
• Peter Dulley
• Robert E Head
• Joanne Stroud
• Mandy Mackinnon
• Anne cardwell
• Candy Head
• laura cardwell
• David de Vere
• CHRISTINE BEARD
• Thomas Stocker
• Terry Bowden
• Lesley Arkin
• Steven Paul Moody
• John Silver
• Philip Johnson
• mick pinder
• Geoff Rogers
• Paul Allen
• Kirsty Craig
• Timothy John Wroughton-Craig
• Melvyn Grundy
• Robert Foden
• Karl Walderman
• C Byrne
• david french
• Mike Dauncey
• Terry Gilbert
• Shaun McGuinness
• Dai Barnaby
• Garry Robert Haydon
• Barry J Fowler
• grahame fisher
• Tina Riley
• Paul Meredith
• Anthony Clements
• Colleen Else
• William Bowery
• Glen Davis
• Brian Johnson
• Patricia Ramshaw
• Roger Gale
• Timothy Sykes
• David Morgan
• Will Blagdon
• Andrew Whittingham
• Henryk Klocek
• Karen Addams
• Nigel Bishop
• jackie jefford
• O.L. Grainger
• Brian Prosser
• Frances Bailey
• Chris Dash
• Malcolm H Whitehead
• Alan Seviour
• Michael Grace
• Robert Donnachie
• Maria Gager
• John Maben
• GEORGE McDADE
• Brenda Whitchurch
• Brian Dyson Stephens
• David Weston
• Brian Ponsford
• James Mathieson
• helen tittershill
• MARK HOWLAND Automotive Shaftesbury
• Helen Pudney
• Chris Titchmarsh
• Kelly Smith
• Ann Staley
• Scott Ritchie
• grannysmith
• Gillian Sorley
• liam nagle-cocco
• Kyle Opheim
• DEREK J EARL
• Russell Richardson
• Danny Fullerton
• Robert Griffiths
• Heidi
• liz sanderson
• Partick Loney
• LORAINE LAMBERT
• anthony hill
• Martin Hollis
• Simon Armstrong
• Rab McKinnon
• Robin Buxton
• jackie shield
• Malcolm Forbes
• vincenzo pilla
• David Gunner
• paul wilcox
• Glynis Elgey of Scott Sales DIY
• mike haydon
• Deb Harrison
• scott page
• Stephen McLellan
• Julie Henson-White
• Louise Prunty
• TONY BRADLEY
• Christopher Leech
• Tina Tyrrell
• Mike Randino
• Deborah Hickman
• Norma Chadwick
• Dawn Tibble
• Alan Jackson
• Malcolm Spite
• Roger O'Donnell
• Caroline Melville
• C. Kitson
• Tim Clarke
• Daniel Doyle
• martin fulton
• Richard Whiteley
• Helen Thorniley-Jones
• rick parisi
• amy butterfield

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