Making Britain the fastest growing economy in the G7 is a bold, fitting and hard ambition. Without harnessing the contribution from financial and related professional services, it’s also an impossible one.
Our industry is represented across the UK, in every region and nation, with two thirds of the 2.4 million people it employs (or one in every 13 workers) based outside the capital in thriving financial hubs such as Birmingham, Belfast, Manchester, Edinburgh, and Leeds as well as cities and towns such as Warrington, Milton Keynes, Swindon and Reading. Financial services is also a highly productive sector – its productivity being three times higher than the national average.
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