Friday Five: the week s top news This week s main hospitality news stories include calls for Rishi Sunak to announce additional business support; fears over the end of the rent moratoria; and pubs struggling to access Government grants.
- Trade body UKHospitality has
called for a bold package of support to enable businesses in the sector to spearhead country’s economic revival in 2021. Ahead of this year’s Budget statement in March, UKHospitality has written to Chancellor Rishi Sunak outlining the additional action needed to accelerate the revival of the UK’s hospitality sector, slash unemployment and bring the whole nation together. In order to ensure the early, rapid return to growth of as many hospitality businesses as possible, it says the Government must extend the VAT cut to 5% for a further 12 months, and ensure it applies across the broad hospitality sector, to stimulate economic activity; and enact a further business rates holida
Pubs left in the dark again as government fails to deliver thousands of lifeline grants cityam.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cityam.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Three quarters of pubs are yet to receive the Christmas grant promised to them by the Government at the beginning of December 2020, according to the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA).