Thought Leadership

The Minister for Nature, Mary Creagh CBE MP, highlighted the important role that Government and private capital must play to help the UK reach net zero by 2050.

Director of External Affairs Karim Palant told the Business and Trade Select Committee that without faster action to fix the domestic capital gap and unlock reinvestment, the UK risks losing its AI scale ups just as they begin to succeed.

UK Private Capital is pleased to announce Richard Swann as the new Chair of Council, the association’s board of directors

On ​6 ​April ​2026, following several years of political and Government activity and sustained engagement by UK Private Capital, the new regime for taxing carried interest comes into effect.

UK Private Capital has continued to support members and engage with the Bank of England as it conducts its System Wide Exploratory Scenario (SWES) to support an informed assessment of the industry’s resilience and contribution to the UK economy.

UK Private Capital has been championing the venture capital industry and pushing for unlocking greater domestic capital from institutions and elsewhere to back this asset class and the pipeline of companies they invest in.

UK Private Capital has launched a new Sustainability Reporting Hub to help private capital firms and their portfolio companies navigate complex reporting requirements, which have increased in recent years as a result of regulatory developments and increasing institutional investor expectations.

UK Private Capital’s latest Annual Review highlights the wide-ranging issues the association has addressed on behalf of the industry over the past 12 months, as well as detailing how it has supported the development of the industry through events, training and other activities.

On Wednesday, the UK Private Capital Dinner brought together industry leaders, MPs, policymakers and the media to celebrate private capital’s role in supporting investment, jobs and growth across the UK.

UK Private Capital is calling on the Government to introduce a new Scale-up Reinvestment Relief (SRR) to strengthen later-stage funding and ensure successful founders reinvest in the UK’s next generation of high-growth businesses.

The 2025 Autumn Budget’s focus on entrepreneurship was very welcome, particularly the announcements regarding the expansion of EMI company eligibility & the doubling of investment thresholds for the EIS and VCT schemes. We remain concerned about the accompanying reduction in VCT tax reliefs. Building on this, the government published a call for evidence on how the tax system can support entrepreneurship.

Registration has opened for Summit 2026, the UK’s largest dedicated conference for the private capital community.

UK Private Capital is urging the Government to reconsider implementation of proposed changes to the unfair dismissal regime that would remove the statutory cap on compensation from January 2027.