A wholesale review of business rates and a country-wide network of Catapult clusters backed up by a “pro-enterprise economic policy”, are among a raft of measures the Confederation of British Industry has submitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ahead of his 2020 Budget.
Boosting investment in the private sector to raise productivity levels across the UK should factor into the government’s Spring statement set to be announced on 11 March 2020. That’s according to a formal letter to the Treasury Department, in which the CBI urges Sajid Javid to turn rising business optimism into a “surge” in investment…
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