Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

UK Economy (Wider world (Culture (43% increase in UK TV in India, British…

- - - - Strong trade links, good deals
      - Financial support for farmers, Single Payments Scheme (£18m in 2015)
      - Biggest single market, goods/services move freely
    - - Restricted law making
      - Mass migration to UK, pressure on services
      - Forced support for poorer countries
      - Comply to EU regulations, restrictive to companies
- - - - Difficult transport
      - Poor farmland
  - - - Crime reduced
      - Less drugs/alcoholism
  - - - Elected leaders of nations & cities manage spending
      - :check: Know how to spend money best
      - :check: Can fix specific problems
      - :red_cross: Money can be misused
      - :red_cross: Central government has less influence
    - - Enabling businesses to drive investment & growth
      - Enterprise zones
        
        Clusters of small businesses
        
        Support each other, share expertise
        
        Improved education & access
      - Lancashire LEP
        
        50,000 new jobs by 2023
        
        £20m of transport improvements
        
        6000 high-skilled jobs in engineering
      - Local enterprise partnerships
- - - - State-run industries e.g. National Coal Board, British Rail
      - 'Propping up' declining industries
      - Strikes, factory closures, power cuts
      - Ageing equipment, outdated practices, too many employees
    - - State-run industry sold off to private shareholders
      - Private companies bring innovation & change
      - New financial centers with offices & retail outlets
    - - 'Rebalance' the economy
      - Rebuild the secondary sector, rely less on tertiary sector
      - Improvements to transport, easier loans, encourage global firms
- - - - Fibrecore - manufacture of optical cables
      - Symetrica - gamma ray spectrometers
      - SEaB Energy Systems - anaerobic digestion system ('Muckbuster')
      - PhotonStar - lighting products
    - - Extensive green areas & woodland
      - Transport links, near M3
      - Excellent facilities (meeting rooms, high-speed broadband, nursery)
      - Source of graduate employees from the University
- - - - Siemens - international energy
      - Procter & Gamble - consumer goods
      - IBM - information technology
      - Santander - banking
    - - Use renewable energy resources
      - Recreation, fitness center, green spaces
      - 20 minutes away from international airport
- - - - Restored to create wildlife lakes
      - Landscape restoration
      - 200 acres blended into countryside
      - Regular noise, vibration, dust & water monitoring
      - Rail transport minimises impact on local roads
- - - - Migrants from Cambridge & elsewhere in UK
      - Migrants from Eastern Europe
    - - Increased congestion (80% car ownership)
      - Local services not used over those in work areas (Cambridge)
      - Young people move away as house prices too high
      - Gentrification breaks community spirit/cultural history
    - - Decrease in agricultural employment, farmers sell land
      - No affordable housing
      - Highest petrol prices in the country
      - Migrants from poor parts of Europe, pressure on services
  - - - Outward migration
      - Limited opportunities
      - Young people move out in search of better employment
    - - No. of schoolchildren falls
      - Fewer residents of working age
      - Increasingly ageing population
      - School closures
      - Care issues in future
    - - Farming economy (sheep) provides limited work
      - Foreign ships dominate deep-sea fishing
      - Boats decline from 900 to only a few
      - 27% increase in visitors (but infrastructure unable to support)