Building Britain for Generations: A Policy Agenda for Family Businesses
Closing Comments Britain’s family businesses did not ask for this moment. They were building, hiring, investing, planning transitions that would take a decade to complete, when a series of sudden policy shifts forced them to stop and recalculate. Some have already reduced headcount. Some have shelved investment. Some are asking, for the first time, whether keeping the business in the family is still viable. That is a choice Government has made, whether it intended to or not. This document sets out how to make a different one. The asks are not complicated. Stability in the tax framework. Finance products that fit how family businesses grow. Recognition of the missing middle in industrial strategy. A procurement system that doesn’t systematically exclude the firms best placed to deliver. These are not concessions to a special interest, they are the conditions under which a significant part of the British economy will either thrive or quietly wind down.
Family businesses have been building Britain for generations. The question is whether the policy environment will encourage them to keep doing it.
Neil Davy, Chief Executive Officer Family Business UK
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