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4th November, 2025

Help us establish an APPG on Economic Development for Regional Growth

Achieving growth and greater prosperity can only be delivered at a local level through genuine partnership working between business and public sector leaders. Policy and solutions must be informed by what works to overcome barriers to growth, and with full endorsement by the businesses who build local economies.

The upcoming budget is likely to be challenging across the board, and growth may pay the price.

The IED and the Business Board Network see significant benefits in establishing a joint All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) bringing business leadership alongside local economic leadership. Our collective depth and breadth of knowledge, expertise and experience, and real time data and intelligence will help inform and shape the government’s thinking on key issues. Click here to read more about our plans.

Our ask is simple. To establish an APPG requires 20 parliamentarians, and we know that a personal direct approach to MPs and members of the House of Lords will be more successful.

If you support this joint initiative, please just click on the links in the document which will take you to the complete list of MPs and Peers, and add your contact information if you would be prepared to reach out to any that you know.

Please do this by 21st November. We will review responses and update you again after that.

Thank you for your support.