The Pink Policy Briefing #3
20/07/2026. London, United Kingdom. Chancellor John Healey arrives to speak to the media at HM Treasury. Picture by Kirsty O'Connor / Treasury. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Fashion Roundtable's weekly read on the policy shaping UK fashion and textiles for the week ending 18th October 2026.
On the 28th October, the Chancellor John Healey will stand up and lay out the UK’s Autumn Budget.
For the first time in years the fashion and textiles sector has something it has rarely had before, a Government talking about reindustrialisation, regional growth and procurement that backs British jobs. As well as a Prime Minister whose entire political identity is built on making things in places that used to make things.
Social value weighting in public procurement doubled to 20% in August, with bidders scored on British jobs, local skills shortages and apprenticeships, across a £90 billion annual contracting market. A Minister for Reindustrialisation sits at BIST. The Commons Library has put procurement reform at £3.1 billion in GDP, 64,000 jobs and £1.2 billion in tax receipts, this in its own words, not ours.
So what are we actually asking for?