Business startup and self employment study March 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant and varied impacts on the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area’s economy.
Anecdotal evidence emerging in 2020 included that the business start-up and self-employment sectors were particularly sensitive to the impacts of the pandemic and the range of restrictions put in place by the UK Government to address infection levels.
The North East LEP commissioned New Skills Consulting and Ortus Economic Research to investigate the scale and nature of the impacts experienced by people starting up in business and the self-employed.
