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BCC: Business leaders to review UK’s infrastructure framework

Chief executives, managing directors, and policy chiefs from some of the UK’s biggest companies – including Network Rail, British Gas, and Google – have met in London for the first meeting of the Business Infrastructure Commission.

The Commission was created by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) to draw upon expertise from leading figures in relevant industries, and to set the agenda for the UK’s long-term infrastructure priorities.

At the meeting, the seventeen commissioners agreed to:

• Outline a vision for the future of UK infrastructure.

• Highlight impediments that currently hamper infrastructure development.

• Re-examine the roles of the public and private sector to ensure the efficiency of the UK’s future infrastructure.

Commenting, David Frost, Director General of the BCC and a Commission member, said:

“This country’s infrastructure is currently operating at full capacity, and it’s essential to consider how it can be made more efficient in the future. This is not just about building new projects, but examining where we can get more out of what currently exists.

“A first class infrastructure is vital to the health of our economy and will underpin recovery. Businesses need assurance that the UK will be an attractive place to invest in the future, in order to maintain its competitiveness in a global market.

“This is all about long-term thinking, so that in twenty or thirty years the rest of the world sees the UK as a genuine business hub, and rightly chooses to invest and locate here.”