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MANUFACTURING
OUR RECOVERY
Paul Hubbard, Chairman of AVK UK, explains why the UK pump-prime its recovery.
In no sector is this argument more
manufacturing industry cannot afford to sub-contract its valid than UK manufacturing. As
future to the vagaries of international markets Alok Sharma wrote to me and other
leading manufacturing companies:
o combat the impact of the be paying for this expenditure through “manufacturing is a critical part of our
Covid-19 pandemic on jobs and our taxes for years to come. There is, I economy”. Unlike other sectors, start-up
livelihoods, the government believe, a collective responsibility on costs in manufacturing are high. Once
has pumped billions of pounds all parties to ensure that these monies manufacturing capability and capacity
T into the economy. We will all remain within the UK economy to have been lost, they rarely return.
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