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Today MPs are debating the increases to National Insurance Contributions, which are going to impact wage rises in the Spring.
Our video helps to explain the issue, and what it will mean for jobs, growth and wages.
Please share and find out more here 👉 ukhospitality.org.uk/campaig…
Rob Pitcher retweeted
Covid passports will be a costly burden that run the risk of creating flashpoints between staff and customers, as well as raising potential issues with equalities legislation and the handling of customer data.
Read our full comment on this here:
ukhospitality.org.uk/news/57…
"Proof of a negative test will no longer be enough"
UK PM Boris Johnson says that after all over-18s have had the chance to get both Covid jabs, full vaccination will be required for entry into "nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather"
bbc.in/3kzzVbW
Rob Pitcher retweeted
We have a rapid rollout of effective vaccines and are heading into summer. If, even at this point, the Govt won’t release restrictions, this points to restrictions in the autumn and winter, when respiratory diseases increase and the NHS is always under more pressure…1/8
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Ok, so Scotland, Wales and NI all now agree tourism and hospitality needs 100% relief from business rates for a full 12 months to recover - England is the odd one out in thinking we can start to pay bills just 9 days after reopening in July
Finance Minister @conormurphysf has announced he is extending the rates holiday for a further 12 months for 29,000 businesses. The £230m package will support the sectors hardest hit by the pandemic.
Find out more here: finance-ni.gov.uk/news/murph…
Rob Pitcher retweeted
A most ignorant article - ignores all the evidence and data completely. The Warwick study was completely discredited. This epidemic centred around infections in hospitals as reputable studies now show. @RishiSunak
thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi…
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❗️Key decisions determining the pace of the Govt’s roadmap were based on SPI-M-O modelling
⚠️ Some serious questions arise from the assumptions on which the modelling is based
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Rob Pitcher retweeted
Businesses can now begin to plan for life post-Covid. But they need financial security too. That means
✅deferring business rates payments for another year
✅continuing ban on evictions
✅extend VAT reduction
✅meeting full cost of furlough
✅support for 3 m left with nothing
Rob Pitcher retweeted
My head hurts & my heart aches - today was the day @BorisJohnson condemned thousands of hospitality businesses to death. Hopes & dreams crushed, livelihoods destroyed, & jobs lost. Seemingly it’s an acceptable sacrifice of a sector @10DowningStreet has always seen as 2nd class.
Rob Pitcher retweeted
A stepped approach, checked against key tests seems welcome, so we can measure what is going on
But this seems at odds with the decision to fling open the doors to 10m children on one day for all pupils - why not use same principles of measurement and care?
#lockdown
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We've genuinely never missed something so much😭😭
Give us a WAAHAAAY if you're ready for BoJos update today 🙌
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Urgent need for extension of VAT and business rates holiday for at least a year to give tourism and hospitality businesses a lifeline and support recovery thetimes.co.uk/article/bosse…
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A well targeted vaccination of identifiable 4 million most vulnerable should prevent >90% of all deaths and >80% hospitalisations. At this point all restrictions should be lifted. For ever.@MattHancock
I’m lost for words! Well words I can put in a tweet. #Conservatives Matt Hancock under pressure to explain £30m test tube work for ex-neighbour | Matt Hancock | The Guardian. theguardian.com/politics/202…
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We need tier restrictions and tier allocations reviewed by the PM as a matter of urgency. They are arbitrary, discriminatory & earlier this week he recognised they place a disproportionate burden on the sector in order to keep other sectors open. Compensate hospitality save jobs
The Sunday Telegraph's splash tomorrow:
Virus tiers could end in nine weeks, Boris Johnson says to head off mass Tory rebellion
telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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So that same approach applies to bars and restaurants and hospitality - right? And we know that the ‘identifying possible outbreaks’ led PHE to conclude 2% directly attributable to hospitality
Isabel Oliver, Director of the National Infection Service at Public Health England, addresses inaccuracies that supermarkets are causing #COVID19 to spread:
ALT Quote from Isabel Oliver, Director of the National Infection Service, Public Health England: "Suggestions that supermarkets are causing COVID-19 to spread are inaccurate. Common exposure data does not prove where people are contracting COVID-19. It simply shows where people who have tested positive have been in the days leading up to their test, and is used to help identify possible outbreaks."
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Although it doesn't mention them by name, this is a pretty stinging rebuke of how @CMO_England and @UKsciencechief have been presenting data to support the case for lockdowns osr.statisticsauthority.gov.…
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There is no light of the tunnel for hospitality in moving back to a tiered approach with a cap on capacity, hours and restrictions on customers meaning revenues of just 30% normal levels
