More than 300 new businesses were launched with the help of the West Lothian Business Gateway over the last year, despite the problems caused by the Covid pandemic and Brexit.
In the last financial year, 325 new businesses received help to start trading across West Lothian. Of those, 32 were in the hard-hit Whitburn and Blackburn ward.
In a report to the recent meeting of that ward’s local area committee, Scott McKillop, a council regeneration officer, said: “This is a healthy level of new starts, especially in a strong jobs market with many vacancies.”
