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Industrial Strategy sets out a ten-year plan to boost investment, create good skilled jobs and make Britain the best place to do business. More than 7,000 British businesses are set to see their electricity bills slashed by up to 25% from 2027, as the Government unveiled its bold new...
Read moreIain McNab, Head of Policy at the Essex Chambers of Commerce responds to the Chancellor’s Spending Review. “The Chancellor has set out her spending plans through to 2029 to parliament. As is increasingly the custom, many of the headline announcements had been made in advance so there was little...
Read moreResponding to the Comprehensive Spending Review, Alex Veitch, Director of Policy at the BCC, said: “Business has been waiting for Government to show it understands the deep-rooted problems holding back our economy and how they can be solved. “Today we have seen signs they get it, with action to...
Read more10,000 jobs, including 1,500 apprenticeships, to be created as the government announces multi-billion investment to build Sizewell C. Ten thousand jobs will be created as the government announces a £14.2 billion investment to build Sizewell C nuclear plant as part of the Spending Review, ending years of delay and...
Read moreThe Chancellor delivered her Spring Statement today and as expected it did nothing material to ease the current pressures on business, at least not in the short term. All the advance speculation and chatter was about cuts to welfare and increased defence spending and those were the dominant themes....
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