Next week, Chancellor George Osborne will be making his Autumn Statement. That means he'll be providing a pre-March insight into economic policy decisions ...

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Survey: What would you like to hear in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement?

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Next week, Chancellor George Osborne will be making his Autumn Statement. That means he'll be providing a pre-March insight into economic policy decisions based on the latest forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility - as well as saying how we're doing.

It will all appear to be very good news. But as an entrepreneur, what would you like to hear? We'd like you to take our quick poll about the changes you'd like to see and then we'll report back on how the Chancellor performed against our Enterprise Nation targets.

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Following a degree in Law and Japanese, Emma joined international accounting firm Arthur Andersen, where she worked in London, Leeds and Manchester offices and set up the firm's Inward Investment practice that attracted overseas companies to locate in the UK.

In 2000, bitten by the dot.com bug, Emma left the firm to start her first business, Techlocate. After 15 months, the company was successfully sold to Tenon plc.

The experience of starting, growing and selling a business from a home base gave Emma the idea for Enterprise Nation which was launched in 2006 as the home business website.

The company has since expanded to become a small business membership community of over 75,000 people who benefit from events and support: online and in person.

Enterprise Nation also presents a campaigning voice to government and the media on behalf of its members.

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Have your say

This group is an opportunity for Enterprise Nation members to suggest ideas on what more/less we should be doing to support small business - and anything you would like us to be raising with government and large organisations on your behalf.

&lt;p&gt;I'm here to help. I'm volunteering free advice calls of up to an hour as part of the Recovery Advice for Business scheme, over the next 6 months. Please get in touch to see how I can help your business.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have over 20 years’ experience as a commercial and corporate lawyer. &amp;nbsp;I trained and worked at some of the largest global and UK law firms – DLA Piper, Baker McKenzie and Osborne Clarke. I have also held senior in-house positions including Head of Legal and Head of Operations at Endsleigh Insurance, Legal and Commercial Director at Jenson8 and General Counsel/Head of Legal at OneFamily, in addition to founding a commercial legal consultancy, Brighton Legal. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have experience advising on a wide range of both strategic and day to day commercial agreements, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, information technology, data protection, dispute resolution strategy, property and employment matters.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My transactional experience includes private company acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs, joint ventures, private equity and other shareholder investments and exits and corporate reorganisations for a wide range of UK and overseas clients – deal values ranging from £20k to US$8bn.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Additional commercial expertise includes managing large corporate teams and projects, working with other professional advisers and institutions and sitting on, reporting to and advising company boards.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am also experienced in training businesses on legal and compliance issues and developing and introducing legal and corporate policies as well as risk management and internal audit.&lt;/p&gt;

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Holly Walsh

<p>I specialise in all aspects of corporate and commercial law and offer free telephone advice calls of up to 30 minutes. Please get in touch to see how I can help your business.</p>
<p>I have 25 years’ experience as a commercial and corporate lawyer.  I trained and worked at some of the largest global and UK law firms – DLA Piper, Baker McKenzie and Osborne Clarke. I have also held senior in-house positions including Head of Legal and Head of Operations at Endsleigh Insurance, Legal and Commerc

Survey: What would you like to hear in the Chancellor's Autumn Statement?

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