The economy is changing at an unprecedented pace: more and more businesses are becoming digital and working internationally. But firms are navigati...
As the UK's most influential business organisation, we campaign across a variety of sectors, regions and nations, tackling the major issues that affect your business.
The economy is changing at an unprecedented pace: more and more businesses are becoming digital and working internationally. But firms are navigati...
Procurement, done well, can improve public services and infrastructure, boost innovation and drive prosperity. It ensures the services we all rely...
UK productivity has lagged behind the rest of the G7 for a decade, impacting everything from competitiveness through to living standards. But with...
The UK’s legacy business rates system does not reflect digitisation, advancements in technology or changing business models, and a patchwork of rel...
Business relies on infrastructure to keep moving – to transport goods between cities and trade with the world. But only a tiny fraction of projects...
Changes to immigration rules after Brexit will be a significant shift for employers. The status quo cannot continue. A fresh approach to immigratio...
A no deal scenario is estimated to cost the UK a long-term reduction in GDP of 8% - a bad deal for citizens and for business. It’s clear that a goo...
For the last 20 years, we’ve been importing more than we export. But selling goods and services overseas is good for business productivity and grow...
There is a chasm between the prosperity of our UK regions. But improving regional productivity could add £200bn to our economy over the next decade...
Businesses’ tax contributions play a vital role in funding our schools, hospitals and public services. But when government departments create polic...
Businesses need skilled talent to stay competitive, but the working world is changing faster than people can develop the necessary skills. By 2024...
Scottish productivity performance has fallen short of its international competitors for decades. Despite the Scottish government’s long-held ambiti...
There has been significant progress on diversity and inclusion in the workplace over the last few years, but we need to pick up the pace of progres...
Climate change is a global issue and, though business is focused on reducing its environmental impact, there is only so much firms can do alone. Bu...
The UK is a world leader in R&D and now is the time to play to our strengths. Investment in R&D helps raise business productivity, create high valu...
There’s too big a gap between the productivity of the ‘best’ and the ‘rest’ of UK businesses. The biggest difference between them? The use of tried...
Since January 2017, there has been no devolved government in Northern Ireland. For businesses this has resulted in policy paralysis where key issue...
UK businesses trade worldwide through 40 agreements with 70 countries. But we risk losing these arrangements if post-Brexit continuity is not secur...
Our Year of Impact reports highlight the CBI’s hard-won progress on behalf of business – across so many of the key issues we’ve campaigned on. From the wins tackling business concerns over an ever-growing skills gap, to driving new and innovative approaches to trade, to championing the needs of business in our future relationship with the EU – we are here to create the right environments for business to grow so that together business delivers prosperity shared.