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West Midlands Economic Impact Monitor
Jun 2025
Insights West Midlands
Working with City Redi, this monitor aims to pull together information across regional partners to understand local economic developments and disseminate local research. Where possible it will utilise all forms of quantitative and qualitative intelligence.
Fragile growth, rising trade tensions and increased cost pressures are shaping the national and regional economic outlook. In
this context business leaders have warned that firms are seeking a ‘platform of stability’. Trade deals between the UK and the US
and between the UK and India are viewed as positive. Curbs on immigration set out in the Immigration Bill announced in May
2025 threaten to disrupt the delicate balance between reducing reliance on immigration and driving economic growth.
