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UKHospitality ran a drop-in session in Parliament for MPs to learn about the Social Productivity Index and why hospitality ranks highest for socially productive growth.
Drop-in sessions are valuable tools for organisations to effectively engage with a large number of MPs at one time.
They also enable high value conversations between MPs and lobbying organisations which increasing awareness of a topic or report and provide MPs with actions they take forward both in their constituency and in Parliament to support the most socially productive sector.
We engaged with over 50 MPs from England, Scotland and Wales across different political parties on how messaging around growth should include not just economic data around jobs but the social impact of sectors.
This is ultimately a more powerful way of translating our ideas and messages into legislation and we create more ‘buy in’ from MPs by speaking to them directly on how socially productive growth affects their constituents.
This event also gave MPs the opportunity to speak to members of the UKHospitality team on current sector wide issues like and the Employment Rights Bill and ill-considered policies such as Extended Producer Responsibility that threaten the viability of hospitality venues.
Constituency data
MPs valued receiving updated hospitality economic data for their constituency enabling them to showcase the number of jobs and revenue hospitality businesses generate in their constituency, enhancing communities and creating places where people want to live, work and invest.
We hope to reframe the narrative around growth so that MPs account for foundational sectors like hospitality both for their economic growth and their broader benefits from socially productive growth when formulating future policy making around the Autumn Budget.
The Social Productivity Index provides a new way to examine how sectors produce growth, and an insight into the social benefits for people, places and performance, via social mobility and regeneration. Hospitality is embedded in every community, yet too often discussions on the economy overlook the tangible social and economic impact of the sectors, leading to its undervaluation in policy decisions.
Autumn’s Budget is pivotal time for the hospitality sector.
We’re encouraging MPs to use their voice in Parliament to make the case for hospitality being an important Budget priority, emphasising its vital role in supporting socially productive growth with opportunities for social mobility and growth across every UK region.
Hospitality businesses up and down the country face significant cost pressures. The £3.4bn cost increases for the sector announced at the 2024 Autumn Budget (wage hikes, Employer NICs, and tax rises) which hit in April are unsustainable.
UKHospitality urges the Government to include social productivity and geographical distribution of growth alongside economic productivity when making impact assessments and developing public policy.
