All Government policy articles – Page 11
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Analysis & FeaturesWill Labour act on damning obesity report proposals?
A House of Lords committee has urged the government to revisit Henry Dimbleby’s ideas on taxation and advertising restrictions
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News‘Shafted’ farmers dismayed by budget tax hikes warn of price increases
Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first budget has been slammed by the farming sector for its ‘betrayal’ over tax hikes
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NewsYour reactions to the new government’s £40bn tax-raising budget
Readers of The Grocer share their opinions on how the autumn budget will affect their areas of industry
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Comment & OpinionLabour’s budget gamble leaves businesses scrambling for cash
Labour is hoping it can both raid corporate pockets and simultaneously stimulate growth
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Comment & OpinionThe budget proves food manufacturing has no government backing
We see no investment agenda from government on a bigger scale, says Andrew Keeble, co-founder at Heck
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NewsAlcohol industry rages as duty set to go up in line with inflation
The tax hike was ‘a kick in the teeth to distillers’ said the UK Spirits Alliance
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NewsThe budget as it happened and what it means for fmcg
Rachel Reeves confirms this budget will raise taxes by £40bn
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NewsSupermarket bosses oppose plans for FSA to take on war on obesity
The British Retail Consortium said it believed the DHSC should take leadership of the government’s obesity strategy
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NewsWes Streeting pledges to ‘work with industry to tackle obesity crisis’
Streeting said there were an “increasing number” of companies that wanted healthier food and more nutritious diets
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NewsBudget could ‘burden’ convenience stores with £634m in extra bills, says ACS
The current projection for the NLW rate in April 2025 is £12.10 per hour, up 5.8%, which would increase the convenience sector wage bill by £417m to over £7.6bn
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NewsStuart Machin urges Chancellor not to raise taxes on business
The M&S chief said he hoped recent ‘rumours’ that Rachel Reeves planned to raise National Insurance were untrue
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Comment & OpinionLords’ recommendations are draconian, but unlikely to see the light of day
Wes Streeting will be pondering how far a new Labour public health strategy can go down the road of intervention and regulation
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NewsDairy farmers warn against watering down of dairy contract legislation
Defra is considering an amendment to the new legislation, despite it going ’against the principles of fair dealing’, the NFU has said
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NewsMedia Bites 24 October: Disposable vape ban, inflation, online retail tax, the budget
The government has confirmed a ban on disposable vapes will come into force on 1 June
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Comment & OpinionWhy isn’t affordable, nutritious food a priority for Starmer?
Tackling the rising cost of food doesn’t come over as a priority for the government, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Comment & OpinionDiageo’s Nuno Teles: budget must reverse the damage done to the spirits industry
Investing in spirits means investing in UK economic growth, sales Diageo GB MD Nuno Teles
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NewsGovernment legalises carrying chickens by legs despite welfare concerns
The ‘shocking’ decision represents the first dilution of animal welfare practices since Brexit and has been criticised by animal rights campaigners
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NewsSeasonal worker scheme confirmed for 2025
The scheme will provide a total of 43,000 seasonal worker visas for horticulture and 2,000 for poultry next year
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Comment & OpinionNew Labour government losing goodwill gloss already
There are very few sacred cows Rachel Reeves is reportedly unwilling to slay in what she warned this week would be a “difficult” budget
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NewsIceland Foods in talks with government over rollout of prisoner rehabilitation scheme
The supermarket’s head of rehabilitation Paul Cowley met with ministers in October to discuss its Second Chance rehabilitation scheme