All Legislation articles – Page 7
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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.
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NewsLegal challenge against 10pm curfew
A legal challenge is being prepared against the Government’s implementation of a 10pm curfew.
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NewsPlea for more targeted support
The sector is facing a “severe and deleterious cumulative effect” from a series of local lockdowns, and further restrictions on supply and demand in the hospitality industry, trade bodies have warned the government.
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NewsKhan: London at a tipping point
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has warned the capital is at a “very serious tipping point” in the fight against coronavirus, as he pushed for a review of the 10pm curfew.
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NewsSunak: No regrets over Eat Out scheme
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has defended his Eat Out to Help Out scheme, and described his frustration at the 10pm curfew.
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NewsNew restrictions for Liverpool, Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough
New restrictions on social contact have been announced in the Liverpool city region, Warrington, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough, banning different households from meeting in indoor hospitality venues.
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NewsHancock defends 10pm curfew
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has defended the 10pm curfew, arguing reducing social contact was preferable to allowing “hundreds of thousands of deaths”.
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NewsNorthern cities face ‘complete decimation’ in trade
The North of England faces mass redundancies and boarded-up high streets unless coronavirus restrictions are reviewed, the leaders of Liverpool, Leeds and Manchester councils have warned.
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InterviewsOakman Inns’ Peter Borg-Neal: Curfew policy ’chaotic and appalling’
Oakman Inns founder Peter Borg-Neal has called the 10pm curfew a “disgrace” and a “public health disaster”.
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NewsNew volume restrictions
The backlash over coronavirus restrictions is continuing to grow, even as a raft of new laws were published.