The Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce has launched its Campaign for Business 2015, which sets out its priorities ahead of next years general election.

The campaign covers five key issues, including devolution, along with infrastructure, skills and employment, finance and taxation and trade. It has been generated based on discussions with businesses in the region over the past year. The Chamber is calling for:

Craig Dean, chief executive of Web Applications UK and Oldham Local President at Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, said: A trawl through statements made by our policy-makers demonstrates a complete lack of understanding about the subtleties around internet connectivity.

It seems impossible to have vital discussions about improving our digital infrastructure when few understand the difference between 2Mb and 200Mbit, never mind the importance of upload speeds to companies trading over the internet.

This leads to an overly cosy relationship between regulators and the ISP industry and needs to be addressed urgently. There are huge factors affecting our future ability to compete in the digital age, from net neutrality, to the importance of fibre to the premise versus fibre to the cabinet.

Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, director of policy and campaigns Chris Fletcher said: By using the opportunity for meaningful engagement with members at our events, especially the local Action for Business networking events, linking with the Chambers Policy & Campaign Committee and Chamber Council, we have managed to refine a huge range of issues and ideas detailed under our five campaign themes.

Some started as issues raised by individuals, others have been included as a direct response to major policy initiatives. All, though, at their heart have the interests of businesses as their origin.

This will be my third General Election at the Chamber and I can say two things with certainty this is the most accurate and comprehensive business campaign document we have produced and this will be the first campaign where our activity will be predominantly produced and delivered digitally.

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Chamber sets out its campaign for business