Essex Chambers of Commerce Spending Review Statement

12th June 2025

Iain 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...

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ESSEX CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE REACTION TO CHANCELLOR’S SPRING STATEMENT

26th March 2025

The 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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