{"id":696329,"date":"2026-01-14T22:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696329\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:41:11","slug":"business-groups-sign-letter-supporting-government-commitment-to-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696329\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Groups Sign Letter Supporting Government Commitment to NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\"><strong>Seven of the UK\u2019s major business groups have written an open letter to the government to support its commitment to Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR).<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\"><strong>The British Chambers of Commerce, the Confederation of British Industry, Enterprise Nation, the Federation of Small Businesses, the Institute of Directors, Make UK and Small Business Britain have all signed the letter.<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">The letter states that NPR is not just a transport project but a much-needed growth project to connect people, communities and businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">While it supports a phased approach to the project it also warns that this approach must not allow delays, doubts or funding gaps to appear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">And it calls on the government to move forward at pace to deliver this crucial rail project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">The full letter can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/response.gv-c.com\/Mail\/Click\/224?a=9A918175A9B0D6F25C51D5262D0BF14E&amp;r=D01350FB23E29C65707B1E22539697CF&amp;v=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven of the UK\u2019s major business groups have written an open letter to the government to support its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-696329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115895866817509429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}