Policy Development

LeighFisher provides policy advice to central civil, defense and local government governmental organizations. We arrange briefings on policy issues for Ministers, Shadow Ministers, their advisors and senior officials, seek to apply our expertise to help shape policy and prepare LeighFisher ‘white papers’ on specific issues confronting government, drawing on in depth sector expertise and global best practice where appropriate. We challenge conventional thinking and approaches to the complex, sometimes competing, and challenging pressures government face of investing in sustainable economic and social infrastructure which will support economic growth, whilst reducing costs.

LeighFisher specializes in advising governments across the world on infrastructure and related services policy. This ranges from policy responses to climate change, UK and EC legislative and regulatory requirements on areas such as recycling, financial regulation and strategic investment programs in broadband and nuclear and renewable energy, ensuring competitive and appropriately regulated markets in utilities and water, and privatization of key government assets such as ports and social infrastructure.

LeighFisher’s distinctive contribution to the formulation of government policy is in the development of fresh, sometimes radical new delivery approaches to economic and social infrastructure and related services that will provide for the needs of rapidly developing and emerging economies as well as the vital replacement and rejuvenation of established infrastructure in the most sophisticated global economies. In particular our clients value our ability to align policy agendas across government departments, and industry sectors which have operated historically on a compartmentalized basis releases new insights and energies and unlocks new agendas which respond to customer and community aspirations.