The latest national Business Confidence Monitor (BCM) shows that business sentiment slipped deeper into negative territory amid uncertainty about the Budget and rising concern about both the tax burden and regulations. However, companies are optimistic that domestic sales and exports growth will improve over the next 12 months.

MSCA Legacy has awarded its annual doctoral bursary to Guo Lu, a PhD student at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), in recognition of his outstanding research on the relationship between corporate culture and firms’ carbon emissions.