All Legislation articles – Page 7
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NewsSage advice: Curfews have ‘marginal impact’
The government’s own scientific guidance states curfews on the hospitality trade are only likely to have a “marginal impact” in the fight against coronavirus.
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NewsUKH to Gov: ‘Stop the blame game’
The government must “stop the blame game” and work with the hospitality sector, rather than hold it responsible for rising infections, UK Hospitality CEO Kate Nicholls has said.
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NewsLack of support for tier 1 and 2 businesses
Hospitality businesses in tiers 1 and 2 have a lack of support, despite facing restrictions including the 10pm curfew, UK Hospitality has warned.
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NewsNorthern leaders hold against harshest restrictions
Areas in the North West, North East, Yorkshire and Humber could have been placed into the highest tier 3 category, but local council leaders held out against the designation.
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NewsLondon could move into tier 2 this week
London could face new restrictions banning different households from mixing indoors as early as this week, mayor Sadiq Khan has warned.
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NewsPM confirms three-tier plan, Liverpool pubs to close
Boris Johnson has outlined government plans to introduce a three-tiered strategy to deal with local and regional outbreaks.PM
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NewsPubs and restaurants can remain open in North East, Yorkshire and Manchester
Pubs, bars and restaurants will be allowed to remain open in the North East of England under the new restrictions due to be announced by Boris Johnson this afternoon.
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NewsConsumers happy with safety measures
The vast majority of consumers have been satisfied with pub, bar and restaurants’ safety precautions and communications in the three months since lockdown was lifted.
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NewsLegal challenge against Northern restrictions
Manchester night time advisor Sacha Lord has launched legal proceedings against the Government’s impending lockdown of hospitality and entertainment venues across the north of England.
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NewsManchester MPs won’t support harshest measures
Manchester MPs have called on the government to avoid closing licensing premises, or risk pushing socialising into private homes.
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NewsPubs to shut as Liverpool faces toughest measures
The government is expected to place Liverpool under tough restrictions today as part of a three-tiered lockdown system.
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NewsData ‘cobbled together’ to justify closures in the North
Chief medical officer Chris Whitty was been accused of using misleading data to justify the expected shutdown of the North of England.
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NewsUKH: Mistake to blame hospitality for Scottish spike
UK Hospitality has criticised the Scottish government’s mistaken use of data to justify new restrictions on hospitality venues, despite it being made “explicitly clear” the figures do not demonstrate the location of infection or transmission.
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NewsNorthern leaders to resist shutdown without support
City leaders in the North of England have vowed to resist a new hospitality shutdown without substantial financial support from central government.
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InterviewsWelcome Break CEO John Diviney: ‘We’re looking to ourselves to provide the solutions for ourselves’
Motorway service operator Welcome Break will not be relying on government support to help it through the upcoming months of uncertainty, CEO John Diviney has said. Of the opinion that schemes put in place earlier in the year were “superb”, Diviney told MCA’s The Conversation that the business is now much better prepared to tackle whatever lies ahead, and it will henceforth be “looking to ourselves to provide the solutions for ourselves, rather than being reliant on government for every solution.”
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NewsShutdown ordered in Scotland
Pubs and licensed premises in five of Scotland’s most populous areas will have to shut for 16 days from Friday, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.
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NewsCurfew vote postponed amid Tory rebellion
A parliamentary vote on the 10pm curfew was postponed last night amid a growing Tory rebellion over the measure.
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InterviewsD&D London CEO Des Gunewardena: ‘We’re going to suck it up and get on with it’
Like so many others in the sector, D&D London CEO Des Gunewardena is now well accustomed to receiving bad news. As the operator behind some of central London’s most iconic corporate and fine dining hot-spots, the government’s latest round of restrictions forcing city workers back out of the office and socialites to bed by 10pm have had an inevitable impact on the business. But Gunewardena is “trying to stay positive,” and having accepted that we could be living in a world of continued uncertainty for quite some time, his ‘new normal’ management style when it comes to the group’s 41-strong estate is “to suck it up and get on with it,” he tells MCA.
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NewsThree-tier system could see return of full lockdown
A new three-tier lockdown system is under consideration for England, with the potential for harsher restrictions including the closure of pubs and restaurants.
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NewsOsmond: Loan schemes ‘dig further trouble’
Emergency government loans designed to help companies through the pandemic could turn “once-viable businesses into zombie basket cases”, Various Eateries CEO Hugh Osmond has said.