When international companies are considering whether or not to locate or expand in the UK, the skills of the local population can be key to their decision. This is true even more so in an era of advanced manufacturing techniques, digital transformations and the global transition to a clean energy economy.
The trouble is, even if those skills exist, they aren’t always evenly distributed across the country – which means that efforts to attract inward investment can also affect the UK’s levelling up agenda to reduce regional disparities.
