Inheritance tax reform threatens 200,000 family-business jobs
Trends Research survey of 2,100 family-business SME owners drove the headline statistic cited across the Times, Telegraph, BBC, broadcast outlets and the trade press.
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Where our SME data shapes the UK business agenda.
Trends Research surveys consistently deliver the kind of SME data that earns coverage in the publications and broadcast outlets that matter — and that gets cited in subsequent policy and analyst commentary. Selected highlights below.
Recent and recurring pickups include
Plus extensive trade and regional press across UK SME-focused outlets.
Selected stories
Surveys that became headlines.
SMEs delay major decisions ahead of Spring Statement
Investment-intent and confidence research published in the week of the Spring Statement — became one of the most-quoted SME data points across coverage of the fiscal event.
Read the insightAI adoption among UK SMEs: barriers and breakthroughs
Sector deep-dive published across UK technology trade press, providing a sector-by-sector picture of SME AI use that became cited reference data through 2024 and 2025.
Read the insightSME hiring confidence as the economy stabilised
Our quarterly SME hiring outlook commentary picked up across BBC, Sky and regional broadcast over the autumn — with Trends Research data cited as the trend reference.
Read the insightSME access to finance: the alternative lending shift
Financial press and SME commentary outlets picked up our research on how UK SMEs are increasingly using non-bank finance — a story that ran through Q4 financial coverage.
Read the insightMonthly SME Business Trends commentary
Our monthly SME tracker generates a steady stream of commentary in Business Matters and across the UK SME trade press — the closest the sector has to a "month in SME" data series.
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Our senior team appear regularly in national print, broadcast and digital media as commentators on the UK SME sector. Richard Alvin (Executive Chairman) and Claire Oakley (Managing Director) are available for comment, interview and contributed analysis.