Industry News

16 Mar 2021

Covid 19 - What you need to know - First Minister's Statement

The Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has today attempted to set out her own road map to return Scotland to ‘Normality’. As you may expect, all steps are subject to progress with the vaccine roll out and status of the disease ...

09 Mar 2021

Covid 19 - What you need to know - Detailed Information on access to Grants

Over the last 48 hours the government have released a series of updates on the criteria to access grants already in existence and those announced as part of the Budget package. The updates cover various matters but include the ability to access c...

08 Mar 2021

Covid 19 - What you need to know - Pavement Licence Relaxations Extended

In a letter from Robert Jenrick (minister of Housing, Communities and Local Government) to Leaders of Local Authorities on Friday (5th March) the Minister announced plans to extend the life of certain relaxations for businesses for up to 12 months...

03 Mar 2021

A Hospitality Budget

Today the Chancellor has spoken and has delivered his Budget to take the country out of the Pandemic and into 2021,it would appear that he heard many of the requests made by the Hospitality industry with the continuation of many of the support veh...

03 Mar 2021

Covid 19 - What you need to know - Wales announces extra financial support for hospitality industry

The Welsh Government has announced further financial support of £30 million for certain businesses. The focus of this latest funding is small, medium and large businesses in the hospitality, leisure and tourism sectors as well as related sup...

03 Mar 2021

Covid 19 - What you need to know - Furlough Scheme to be extended to end of September 2021

In his budget this afternoon, the Chancellor will announce that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, more commonly referred to as the ‘Furlough’ scheme, will be extended until end of September 2021. The scheme was first introduced in ...