Improving the business environment across all regions emerges as a core area of focus for the CBI’s small and medium size members.
As part of our ongoing work with SMEs across the country, we’ve been speaking to our small and medium size members on what steps need to be taken to improve the business environment across the UK. Our latest discussions has highlighted three key areas of focus: closing productivity gaps between and within regions, how Net zero is core to building back better as well as the business recovery from coronavirus.
Leveling up by closing productivity gaps
The government has repeatedly affirmed its commitment to ‘level up’ the country, bringing prosperity to all corners of the UK, but this remains an ambiguous term. The CBI is developing a series of recommendations to shape government policy on this agenda, considering the short-term impacts of COVID-19 and Brexit on all regions, as well as how we might address the long-term gaps in productivity and inequality across the country.
A focus on the key drivers of productivity (sk
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