Policy Connect

On Wednesday 22nd January, Policy Connect held a reception in the House of Lords to discuss the sustainability priorities of the new Parliament. The event, chaired by Policy Connect’s head of sustainability, Claudia Jaksch, provided a forum for policy-makers, business leaders, industry members, academics and third sector organisations to discuss the key challenges in sustainability that need to be tackled over the next five years.

The last few weeks have been an interesting time for us here at Policy Connect and our stakeholders.

After a General Election comes re-engaging all of our previous parliamentary stakeholder and attracting new ones to work towards our mission to lead the development of new policy ideas through evidence and collaboration. Oh - and all of our All-Party Parliamentary Groups must be reconstituted. All in all a busy start to 2020.

This election, more than 180 seats across the country held a majority of less than 5000, meaning that from today we can expect a whole host of new faces in Parliament after the election. In this blog, we take a look at seven newly elected candidates who are “Ones to Watch” for Policy Connect and our supporters, and how we feel we could best work with them.

Laura Trott – Conservative

Sevenoaks

In this blog, policy manager Jack Tindale talks us through how the manifestos and potential new government will impact the data industry.

It is inevitable, even during a ‘normal’ election campaign that digital and creative industries will tend to receive the short shrift in terms of coverage and policy announcements. With this election being heavily tilted towards Brexit, the struggle for air time is even more pronounced.