Richard Harpin

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James Reed: all about business · 61. The email that saved HomeServe and sparked a £4bn business | Sir Richard Harpin · 12 Jan 2026 podcast

So you're not startups, but people have got going.

Yes.

So we would define that in Business Leader as any business that's turning over more than £3 million and up to about £100 million.

With the Mid-Market Council, which is an initiative that I sit on, which is backed by NatWest and helping engage with government and come up with policies that can help mid-market businesses to scale.

The definition there is a business turning over between 10 and 100 million or employing between 49 and 749 people.

So above that, you're a big business, are you?

Yes.

Right.

Okay.

You've obviously decided to focus on this group for a particular reason.

I mean, you see potential there, I'm guessing.

And you see that they maybe have been underserved in the UK.

Is that where you're coming from?

Yeah.

I think the issue is that as a country, we've focused on startups.

And if you did a review of the media, there are six times more mentions of startups and small businesses compared to scale-ups.

There is a lot more support for startup businesses.

The startup loan scheme, over a billion pounds lent to 100,000 businesses over the last 10 years.

There is not scale-up financing.

Right.

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