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£8.2bn wiped from the pub sector in beer sales alone in year to forget for pubs Around 2,000 pubs are estimated to have closed permanently and £8.2bn in value wiped from the sector in beer sales alone in the past 12 months, figures from the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) show. In what it describes as “a year to forget for pubs” the BBPA has called on the Government to ensure pubs can operate without restrictions on 21 June after revealing the devastation the UK’s brewers and pubs have faced in the past 12 months. As well as estimating that 2,000 pubs have closed for good, the trade association says that the Government’s lockdown rules have led to 2.1 billion fewer pints being sold since March last year. ....
Sector recovery: a think-tank has concluded pubs need a permanent VAT reduction and beer duty cut to thrive post-lockdown (images: Martin Parratt, Getty Images) The Government should support the pub sector’s recovery by slashing taxes and providing top-up grant support, a new report has claimed. Think-tank Localis concluded top-up grants should be used to help pubs in ‘left-behind places’ such as coastal towns or former industrial communities in 2022. In the report, titled ‘The Power of Pubs – protecting social infrastructure and laying the groundwork for levelling up’, the think-tank makes several recommendations on tax. The Government should work with the sector on a long-term solution to business rates reform, beyond the end of the rates holiday, it recommended. ....
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has expanded its membership with the addition of JD Wetherspoon, Loungers, the Oakman Group and Drake & Morgan. The BBPA – whose members account for around 90% of beer brewed in Britain and own around 20,000 of the nation’s pubs – stated that the growth in membership and more than £2bn in supportive measures in the Budget highlighted the value in having a strong voice for the pub and brewing sectors. It added that the type of organisations that were now joining represented the transformation of the beer and pub sector into a “modern, innovative and forward-looking industry”. ....
Scottish pub operators and trade groups have said they still feel left in the dark by the Scottish Government’s announcement about when pubs can be expected to reopen. ....