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10:58, 1 NOV 2021
Impact of supply chain crisis and Covid revealed as almost 8,000 Leicestershire businesses in ‘significant’ distress
Insolvency and Administration
Challenges include rising inflation, labour shortages, spiralling energy prices and the winding back of Covid support
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Treasury pumping £400m into next generation of Midlands Engine Investment Fund to help region's SMEs
Finance
Represents a significant commitment to support a region which has suffered from limited access to SME finance
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Chancellor creates £200m South West investment fund to help SMEs
The Budget
Chancellor Rishi Sunak aims to further address issues around access to finance in wake of success of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Investment Fund
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Plymouth receives £19.9m from Levelling Up Fund for road improvement
The Budget
Council given Government cash in Budget for Woolwell to The George transport scheme and extra park-and-ride parking
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Humber Freeport gets Budget go-ahead with two out of three tax sites set for November launch
The Budget
7,000 jobs anticipated as customs and tax incentives act as magnet to Net Zero and manufacturing investors
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Autumn Budget 2021: East Midlands Chamber responds
The Budget
'This was a fairly steady, even-handed Budget with little to excite or fright businesses'
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New £130m British Business Bank fund to back growth of Welsh firms confirmed by Rishi Sunak
The Budget
An external fund manager will be appointed to manage the fund
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Budget 2021: East Midlands Chamber calls for fresh growth strategy amid fears economy is stallingÂ
Chamber of Commerce
'Our data suggests growth in investment is slowing and not as high as we’d expect it to be at this point of the recovery'
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak to announce £130m fund to back the growth of Welsh SMEs
The Budget
In his budget tomorrow he is expected to confirm that the British Business Bank will establish a £130m fund for Wales
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Swansea Bay City Region £30m City Deal skills project gets government sign off
Wales
Over the next decade the Skills and Talent programme will upskill thousands of people
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Why need to 'share the love' on innovation
Economy
We need to embrace open innovation
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Drax advances bioenergy with carbon capture plan as strategies align
Energy
East Coast Cluster backing and negative emissions technology importance stressed in key week for climate policy
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Carbon capture sequencing success lapped up across the North - reaction to Humber and Tees selection
Climate Agenda
East Coast Cluster in Track One of £1b funding pledge
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Autumn Budget 2021: What to expect from Rishi Sunak's crucial speech including business rates, minimum wage and energy price reform
The Budget
The Chancellor has said he wants to cut taxes - but that public finances 'must be put back on a sustainable footing'
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Plymouth freeport business case due to go to Government in November
freeports
Plan for Plymouth and South Devon Freezone will be submitted after a stakeholder event is staged early in November 2021
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Steel support vital in levelling up agenda as foundation industry could 'make or break grand plans'
Chamber of Commerce
High-level Chamber debate in shadow of British Steel HQ hears of hopes and fears for spreading wealth
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New hub for 1,600 Department for Work and Pensions staff in South Wales officially opened
º£½ÇÊÓÆµ Government
The new 133,000 sq ft building at Nantgarw has been opened by º£½ÇÊÓÆµ Government minister Therese Coffey
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Wales needs to see the benefits of independence by looking to Ireland
Boris Johnson
We spend a lot of time agonising over whether an independent Wales is affordable.
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Plan to upgrade key South West to London route and give region economic boost
Transport
Consultation begins on scheme to dual 8.5-mile stretch of A358 in Somerset
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New figures show regional scale of º£½ÇÊÓÆµ HGV driver crisis
Armed Forces
'That isn’t the fault of migrant workers – it’s the fault of a flawed economic model which holds down workers’ rights and pay'
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Net Zero champion Andrew Griffith praises green efforts of Leicester's Michael Smith Switchgear in run up to COP26
Climate Agenda
'We have undertaken extensive research and development projects to reduce the amount of raw materials we use'
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Campaign to ensure Hull's electrification sparks up as councillors fear Covid cash axe
Transport
Financial impact concerns city chiefs - prompting rallying call to businesses
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Cornwall tech firm forecasts US sales to reach £1m
Exports
Penzance-based Ocean 3D is looking to crack the American market after being helped by DIT
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Energy boss explains how his company has managed to side-step gas price crisis
Energy
'The group is well positioned to continue in its business objectives despite the increased commodity markets'
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