Some of the UK’s biggest employers and infrastructure investors including Forth Ports, Manchester Airports Group, CBRE, NAMRC, Mace as well as trade associations Make UK and the Association of British Insurers have launched the Inclusive Growth Commission to help tackle our long-standing and highly impactful growth problem. The research, policy and secretariat function of the Commission is provided by Bradshaw Advisory’s expert team.
The Inclusive Growth Commission will develop practical ideas to address the challenge of a lack of growth in the economy, a systemic issue since the Global Crash of 2008. The next 12 months will see commissioners from leading capital-intensive businesses and expert advisers from the academic and think-tank world make proposals in the areas of investment, project delivery, work, health and skills to achieve fairer and inclusive growth for all parts of the United Kingdom.
The Commission believes that focus on capital - physical, financial, human and knowledge - is the key prism through which to view the growth problem:
Physical capital - housing as well as energy and transport infrastructure to allow key UK clusters to develop and become engines of growth.
Human capital - a healthy, skilled workforce able to participate in and fuel growth.
Financial capital - reliable flow of patient capital investment of sufficient scale to support development of future engines of growth.
Knowledge capital - an institutional network able to channel financial capital in a way that maximises the development of commercialisable ideas.
Commissioners
Ciaran Bird, Divisional President, CBRE
Hannah Gurga, Director-General, Association of British Insurers (ABI)
Jason Millett, CEO of Consultancy, Mace
Ken O'Toole, CEO, Manchester Airport Group
Charles Hammond, CEO, Forth Ports
Verity Davidge, Director of Policy, Make UK
Andrew Storer, Chief Executive, Nuclear Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre