Last week's poll: investing for productivity

Since the 2015 general election we’ve heard a lot from government about their plans to improve productivity and make the UK the richest of all the major economies by 2030.

Similar proclamations were made in the Budget on November 22, 2017, and the publication of the government’s Industrial Strategy white paper on November 27, 2017 identifies the ways in which government, industry and academia can collaborate to pull the UK up the G7 productivity rankings and boost prosperity.

There are many targets for investment that have been suggested as a solution to raising industrial productivity, and we asked Engineer readers what they thought would be most effective.

The majority of respondents (58 per cent) thought skills and training as foremost in the battle to improve productivity, an issue addressed in part in the chancellor's Budget, which allocated funds toward to education and training.