Corrugated packaging
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So what can MP’s and policy-makers do for us?

For more information contact corrugated@paper.org.uk

Take a positive long term view about UK manufacturing. Believe it can prosper again. Turn that belief into practical policies:

POLICY

• Give strategically important new manufacturing industries as much support as possible to get off the ground – don’t leave it entirely to the market or other countries will take advantage
  
  
• Ensure a less price volatile and more reliable energy supply – to ensure that UK manufacturing is not at a disadvantage relative to other EU countries

PROMOTION

• Promote manufacturing in schools and colleges – let youngsters see that there is a good future in manufacturing careers
• Continue to invest heavily in education and training – there is a need for far more training and apprenticeship opportunities for young people who want to go into manufacturing, sometimes straight from school

ACTION NOW

• Remove the charge for business rates on empty property – when margins are thin, business rates can make the difference between a company’s profit or loss
• Introduce more favourable Capital Allowances (not just first year) for capital expenditure – new manufacturing plant and equipment is fundamental to the UK’s future prosperity – provide more encouragement to invest – right now
• Reduce significantly the amount of regulation and bureaucracy that manufacturing companies increasingly face – this is where policy-makers need to adopt a different mind set – make it easier, not more difficult, for companies to manufacture goods in the UK,

CPI stands ready to help policy-makers with advice as well as access to the best in UK manufacturing practice.