Ben Carpenter Merritt is Manufacturing Policy Manager at Policy Connect, which coordinates the work of the All-Party Manufacturing Group (APMG) in the House of Commons. He believes public policy can be made to work more effectively for manufacturers, but only if manufacturers make their voices heard more loudly.
In recent years, the UK has experienced a decline in productivity growth that has seen us lag behind our European peers. This slowdown caused such concern that in 2016 the government published the UK’s first modern Industrial Strategy, to mitigate the decline and develop solutions. These solutions revolve around the adoption of modern digital manufacturing…
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