Diana Johnson MP backs Hull social enterprises

Hull North MP Diana Johnson today (Friday 17 November) visited Hull's Enterprise Week event at the KC Stadium. Enterprise Week aims to raise awareness of social enterprises and the impact they are having in our community. The 50,000 social enterprises in Britain are businesses working towards a double-bottom line as well as making profits they pursue social or environmental objectives. Most of their profits go straight back into the business itself or the community they work in.

5 per cent of all businesses in Britain today are social enterprises Jamie Oliver's Fifteen and The Big Issue are two well-known examples but only 1 in 4 people actually knows what a social enterprise is. The Government has committed more than £18 million to help promote social enterprise businesses.

At the KC Stadium event Diana Johnson MP met directors of local social enterprise and discussed what the Government is doing for social enterprises in Hull. The MP promised to take back their views to the Government Minister responsible for social enterprise, Ed Miliband MP.

Diana Johnson MP said: "Enterprise Week aims to raise awareness of the incredible impact social enterprise is having on communities and on the way we do business.

"I also want to let local social enterprenuers know that the Labour Government is on their side. The Government's new Social Enterprise Action Plan will them tell how Government will work in partnership with them. "I want to hear the views of local social enterprenuers. The Government Minister responsible for social enterprise, Ed Miliband MP, has promised to meet me and it is important that we let him know what local people in Hull think."

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