ALAN YATES
Alan believes that if the industry comes together with one voice to communicate to any governing body, it will be much more effective than many voices by themselves
It’s all about communication
PPMA President Alan Yates is back! This month, he discusses the importance of effective communication
Governments rarely listen to individuals and they rarely listen to individual companies, but when an entire industry sector speaks with one voice, the voting landscape can be influenced and governments do pay attention.
Alan Yates is the President of the PPMA as well as the chairman and MD of Endoline Machinery. For more information, visit
www.ppma.co.uk.
B
asically speaking, as an industry, we need to pull together to effectively
lobby and communicate with the government to reduce costly regulations which will ultimately help SME’s. Anyone who has ever tried to
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un-pick the complexities of the regulatory machine that is UK Parliament will know just how challenging an undertaking it can be! Over the past century consecutive UK governments have evolved into a complex network of different departments, sub-departments, agencies and committees each driven by their own political or private agendas and seemingly operating in an environment in which none has any direct authority over any of the others! As if the UK system were not
complex enough, we are now subject to the activities of the
European Union and the lion’s share of UK legislation now emanates from Brussels. Even worse is the fact that it is often ‘gold-plated’ by over zealous civil servants before finally finding its way onto UK statute books. All of this activity, captured beautifully in the famous television sitcom Yes Minister, has resulted in UK industry being subjected to what the government quaintly refers to as ‘Regulatory Burden!’ This is of course, a euphemism for the ball and chain that government has placed around the ankles of the already over-taxed private sector who are desperately trying
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