Growth is UK Government’s top priority and their new strategy is central to that mission but there is work to be done to harness the expertise, real-world problem solving and connections to their communities of businesses of all sizes.

In its Invest 2035 green paper the UK Government invites responses to its proposals. Our roundtable will ensure Scottish business thinking is at the heart of the proposed 10-year plan to deliver the certainty and stability businesses need to invest in the high growth sectors that will deliver the good jobs, higher wages and better public services our people deserve.

Prosper welcomes the UK Government’s commitment to put an end to shifts in policy direction by the setting up of a statutory Industrial Strategy Council which embeds stability and long-termism into the plan from the start.

Scotland’s Council for Development and Industry (SCDI) has been convening all of Scotland industries and sectors to deliver economic growth since we were set up to address the fallout from the depression of the 1930s. Scotland’s leading economic alliance, we take the longer view and see the bigger picture championing Scotland’s contribution to the global economy.