CBI to government: ‘Do more for UK infra investing’

The business lobbying organisation is calling on the UK to credit-enhance greenfield projects, introduce tax incentives, pool pension resources, curtail Solvency II and encourage banks and institutional investors to come up with a shared funding model.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) – a lobbying group and self-styled “voice of business” – has published a report urging the UK government to do more for infrastructure investing, so that institutional investors are left with “An offer they shouldn’t refuse,” as the report is titled.

The prize, as the CBI sees it, is to capture at least 1 percent of the UK’s £1.5

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