Budget 2013: Business leaders deliver their verdict

BUSINESS leaders in the West Midlands have broadly welcomed the measures outlined by Chancellor George Osborne in his fourth Budget.

Steve Brittan, president of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Group, said measures to ease unemployment were especially welcome, particularly after latest figures once again showed a rise in the region’s jobless total.

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