Local businesses highlighted the following challenges to Buckinghamshire Business First (BBF) in March 2025:
- Rising cost of employing people (National Insurance contribution increases squeezing already tight margins)
- High cost of recruiting skilled people into certain sectors
- Increased regulatory burdens (e.g. additional costs on plastic packing and recycling)
- High energy and insurance costs
- Difficulties achieving planning permission
- Difficulties accessing finance (particularly for businesses who are seeking to innovate but are not operating in high-tech sectors)
- Changes to business rates disproportionately impacting different sectors (manufacturing in particular)
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