Britain’s deteriorating road infrastructure has forced manufacturers to spend more on logistics, as well as increasing difficulty around labour mobility and access to skills, Make UK has said.
The lobbying group said that over half of manufacturers (54%) believe that national road infrastructure has deteriorated over the last decade.
Its latest study found that manufacturers believe that successive governments have put too much emphasis on cost when valuing infrastructure projects, and not enough on their potential benefit.
Manufacturers in the north of England were particularly critical of the state of road infrastructure compared to other areas of the UK, with 68% of those in the north-west saying that infrastructure has deteriorated over the last decade.
Recent data from the AA found that the number of vehicles damaged by potholes reached a five-year high.
In November, the previous government announced that £8.3bn in redirected HS2 funds would be spent to try and remedy this issue, but...
