ALT Key recommendations The Government should: - ensure that support packages for manufacturers are promoted and delivered, at scale, across the UK. - use Capital Allowances in their various forms as a means to ensure that businesses are investing in green technologies. - ensure that businesses setting key net zero deliverables are supported so that their net zero plans align with the government’s net zero strategy.

ALT Floriane Fidegnon Head of Industry, Technology and Innovation, Policy Connect “Now more than ever, manufacturers need the tools to ensure that their businesses are sustainable in the long term. Digital technologies can support this; however, business leaders need government’s support to be able to invest and deploy technology at scale. This report highlights the potential alignment between environmental and industrial policy, calling for key action now. “

ALT Steve Evans, Chair IET Manufacturing Policy Panel “Together, digitalisation and sustainability are the two most powerful forces that we are going to see in manufacturing over the next decade. Joint and synergistic action on both is now urgent and vital. We can’t afford to have separate digital and sustainability strategies. To deliver the ambitious C02 reduction target of 12MT as set out in the Government’s Decarbonisation Strategy, will require a gigantic effort from both digital and sustainability problem-solvers, on an industrial scale. Politicians and policymakers can help too by ensuring manufacturers have the business and financial support they need”. #MFGNetZero