Giving their reaction to the Autumn Budget, the CEOs of South Yorkshire Chambers of Commerce said in a joint statement: Though it lacked some important measures, South Yorkshire businesses will find much to welcome in this Budget. They needed to. Going into it they faced immediate...
Giving her reaction to the Chancellor’s budget, Shevaun Haviland, Director General of the BCC, said: “There is much to welcome in this Budget for business communities across the UK. “The Chancellor has listened to Chambers’ long-standing calls for changes to the business rates system and this will be good news...
We welcomed the Secretary of State for Education The Rt Hon Nadhim Zahawi MP on Thursday 21 October 2021 at a grand opening ceremony of the SciTech Digital Innovation Hub. The Secretary of State for Education was presented by Yiannis Koursis, Principal and CEO of Barnsley College,...
William Bain, Head of Trade Policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, said: “Business will welcome an Agreement in Principle between the UK and New Zealand covering trade in goods and services. “We particularly welcome the intention to agree comprehensive chapters on market access, labour mobility and professional qualifications, digital trade,...
Proportion of UK exporters reporting increased export sales (30%) rose slightly from Q2 (27%) However, proportion reporting decreased sales remained stubbornly and historically high at 26%, while 45% report no change Recovery in manufacturing exports began to fall back slightly from previous quarter A survey of 2,600 UK exporters has revealed that the recovery in export sales...
Commenting on the inflation statistics for September 2021, published today by the Office for National Statistics, Suren Thiru, Head of Economics at the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), said: “September’s dip in inflation reflects temporary data distortions rather than the reality on the ground. “The slowdown was largely...
