Plan to assign large firms a ministerial ‘buddy’ are criticised
A scheme to give the heads of the UK’s top 50 companies a personal hotline to government ministers has been condemned as a divisive gimmick by one of construction’s leading figures.
Bob White, former chairman of Mace and co-founder of Constructing Futures, said he thought the plan to assign huge corporations a ministerial “buddy” would do little to help the construction industry in Whitehall.
The business department has said the plan is at a very early stage, but spoke of “a need for strategically important companies to have a single point of contact in the government”.
White told ɫTV: “There are particular priorities that we should, as an industry, go to government with, and we should go as a single voice, to a single voice.”
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