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    • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
      BoE warns of risks to UK businesses from private equity bubble

      Officials escalate warnings about leverage, transparency and valuations

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    • Monday, 25 March, 2024
      UK infrastructure
      Water companies told to install monitors on 7,000 sewage pipes

      Pollution from emergency overflow pipes into canals, coastal waters and rivers has not always been recorded until now

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    • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
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      Chancellor retaliates against UK entrepreneur’s criticism in private Number 11 meeting

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    • Monday, 18 March, 2024
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      UK consulting market to flatline as clients cut spending, study finds

      Big Four firms will face a tough market this year as economy and election leave companies cautious

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    • Monday, 18 March, 2024
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      Sunak to promise help for Britain’s small businesses in effort to woo voters

      Announcement is latest attempt to close gap with opposition ahead of election expected this year

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    • Sunday, 17 March, 2024
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      Private equity has piled into a veterinary market that is consolidating fast

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    • Friday, 15 March, 2024
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      Starmer seeks to reassure business over Labour’s worker rights pledges

      Party leader sends out senior colleagues to urge engagement over intended reforms

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    • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
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      Working from home made UK air traffic control chaos worse, report finds

      Big outage in August 2023 ‘more protracted’ because engineers were not in the office

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    • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
      UK economy
      UK economy returns to growth in January

      Expansion in services sector helped deliver 0.2% rise in GDP, in line with forecasts

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    • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
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      UK heat-pump makers look to government for certainty

      Britain is a long way from the 600,000 annual installation target ministers want to hit by 2028

    • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
      UK retail industry
      UK competition watchdog plans probe into vet market

      Competition and Markets Authority is concerned pet owners may be overpaying for treatment

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    • Saturday, 9 March, 2024
      Andy Haldane
      Britain’s hunt for growth goes on

      The chancellor’s fiscal straitjacket meant there were few measures in the Budget likely to help an investment-starved economy

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    • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
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      Decision on UK trade settlement times stymied by City divisions

      Task force’s report set to say 2026 timeline for implementation is possible but shies away from hard deadline

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    • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
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      UK growth prospects barely changed by chancellor’s tax cuts

      Fiscal watchdog’s forecasts at odds with Hunt’s assertion that his plans would secure ‘not just higher GDP but higher GDP per head’

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    • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
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      Britain needs more than fiscal games

      The old budgetary theatre will not help improve the dire performance of the UK economy

    • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
      UK Budget 2024
      Film production boosted by £1bn creative industries plan

      Eligible studios in England will receive 40% tax relief on their business rates until 2034

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    • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
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      SMEs eye Budget boost as they battle rising costs and labour shortages

      Companies seek R&D support, more time to pay off pandemic loans and back flexible working

    • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
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      Details of the claim have not yet been made public

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    • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
      FCA to probe banks requiring personal guarantees for small business loans

      UK regulator to take action after lobby group files ‘super-complaint’ over lenders’ requirements

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    • Friday, 1 March, 2024
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      Regulators should answer to joint UK parliamentary committee, says Tory group

      MPs and peers’ report warns poor oversight of complex regime has led to lack of accountability

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    • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
      More than 140,000 UK SMEs suffered ‘debanking’ last year

      Data to MPs from 8 lenders show concerns over financial crime and risk appetite among reasons for business account closures

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    • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
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      M&S joins other grocers in raising employees’ hourly pay

      FTSE 100 group will increase rate to at least £12 putting it above the national minimum wage

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    • Monday, 26 February, 2024
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      UK watchdog opens probe into 8 housebuilders over information sharing

      ‘Complex and unpredictable planning system’ to blame for building shortage, says Competition and Markets Authority

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    • Monday, 26 February, 2024
      News in-depthUK employment
      Labour’s worker rights shake-up leaves UK business on edge

      Overhaul planned by main opposition party could backfire and end up harming employees and bosses, say executives

      A montage of the Labour party logo and a woman holding a sign that says ‘Don’t gut my salary’
    • Friday, 23 February, 2024
      Badenoch row with ex-Post Office chair risks putting business leaders off public posts

      Serving and former officials warn of increased politicisation of their roles after spat between UK business secretary and Henry Staunton

      Business secretary Kemi Badenoch and ousted Post Office chair Henry Staunton
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