I know from personal experience that most of the 'initiatives' are money making schemes for 'consultants' and the like. The majority are a waste of taxpayers money. The best thing they could do for small business is to give FREE help with compliance, for example with help and guidance over legal requirements for web pages, data protection, accounting, VAT, employment specialists, export specialists, etc.
Instead they get something like £10K to hire somebody to do something that could be obtained for £1K, or similar. Naturally, the 'consultant' or 'specialist' who benefits from these initiatives is laughing all the way to the bank. I've had the Chamber of Commerce trying to get me to engage in these schemes as a consultant and get my clients signed up, but I couldn't rip off anyone to make a cheap buck. Not even the anonymous taxpayer.