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Rishi Sunak faces backlash for 'wildly inaccurate' hospitality rent remarks

02 March 2021 by

Rishi Sunak has come under fire from the hospitality industry for underestimating the rent costs faced by businesses.

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BEIS committee calls for government to address growing commercial rent arrears

01 March 2021 by

The Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) committee has called for the government to address growing commercial rent arrears in a report that says the issue is “jeopardising” many businesses’ prospects of long-term recovery.

Gordon Ramsay says restaurant industry 'should be less of a masculine world' in conversation with chancellor News

Gordon Ramsay says restaurant industry 'should be less of a masculine world' in conversation with chancellor

19 February 2021 by

Gordon Ramsay has said the restaurant industry "should be less of a masculine world" in conversation[...]

Think tank urges chancellor to gradually phase out furlough to avoid job losses News

Think tank urges chancellor to gradually phase out furlough to avoid job losses

18 February 2021 by

Think tank the Resolution Foundation has urged chancellor Rishi Sunak to phase out the furlough scheme[...]

Bounce Back Loan repayment extension gives businesses ‘breathing space’ News

Bounce Back Loan repayment extension gives businesses ‘breathing space’

08 February 2021 by

Further details of Pay As You Grow (PAYG) have been confirmed, enabling more flexible repayments on[...]

CBI says businesses need support before Budget News

CBI says businesses need support before Budget

19 January 2021 by

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has written to the chancellor calling for further business support[...]

Operators call for meaningful long-term support to get them through latest lockdown News

Operators call for meaningful long-term support to get them through latest lockdown

06 January 2021

Operators have called for more meaningful long-term support to support the hospitality sector through the latest lockdown, particularly an extension of the current VAT reduction.

Hospitality businesses to receive grants worth up to £9,000 News

Hospitality businesses to receive grants worth up to £9,000

05 January 2021

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that businesses in the hospitality sector are to receive a one-off grant worth up to £9,000 to help them through to the spring.

Chancellor extends furlough until end of April News

Chancellor extends furlough until end of April

17 December 2020 by

The furlough scheme has been extended until the end of April 2021, chancellor Rishi Sunak announced[...]

Spending review: Chancellor announces National Living Wage increase News

Spending review: Chancellor announces National Living Wage increase

25 November 2020 by

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced the National Living Wage will increase in his spending review today.

Trade associations issue desperate plea to chancellor Rishi Sunak News

Trade associations issue desperate plea to chancellor Rishi Sunak

20 October 2020 by

A coalition of trade associations have sent an open letter to chancellor Rishi Sunak calling for[...]

Government to pay two-thirds of workers’ wages for businesses closed by law News

Government to pay two-thirds of workers’ wages for businesses closed by law

09 October 2020 by

The government will pay two-thirds of workers’ wages for businesses required to close their premises due[...]

Prime minister says Eat Out to Help Out may have helped spread coronavirus despite lack of evidence News

Prime minister says Eat Out to Help Out may have helped spread coronavirus despite lack of evidence

05 October 2020

Prime minister Boris Johnson has said August's Eat Out to Help Out scheme may have helped spread coronavirus, but when challenged on the scientific evidence behind the 10pm curfew on hospitality, he was unable to provide any.

Chancellor to introduce furlough scheme replacement and extend VAT cut News

Chancellor to introduce furlough scheme replacement and extend VAT cut

24 September 2020

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce new schemes to protect jobs and prop up businesses as coronavirus restrictions further hamper hospitality operators' ability to trade.

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