{"id":9162,"date":"2024-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/2024\/08\/11\/call-for-new-welsh-hospitality-minister-to-assist-reform-of-business-rates\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T00:00:00","slug":"call-for-new-welsh-hospitality-minister-to-assist-reform-of-business-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/call-for-new-welsh-hospitality-minister-to-assist-reform-of-business-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for new Welsh Hospitality Minister to assist reform of business rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Sargeant MS has been appointed as Minister for Social Partnership in the Welsh Government, which includes responsibility for hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>UKHospitality Cymru has said a new, fairer system that reduces the burden on high street businesses is required.<\/p>\n<p>David Chapman, Executive Director of UKHospitality Cymru, said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cI\u2019m pleased to welcome Jack Sargeant as the Minister for Social Partnership, with responsibility for hospitality, and I look forward to working with him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cI know from our meetings in the past that he has a strong interest in the sector and he has been a significant supporter of the pub and brewing sector, while Chair of the Cross-Party Group for Beer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cHe\u2019ll be aware of many of the current issues affecting hospitality but businesses rates is the area that is the biggest barrier to growth and we believe reform of a broken system must be a priority.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cRates reform is a manifesto commitment of the UK government and I hope the two governments can work together on a new, fairer system that reduces the burden on high street businesses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>\u201cWith the recent changes to the tax system and an ongoing 12-month review into rates, now is the time to kick on and implement change that will make a real difference to hospitality businesses, the Welsh economy and jobs for Welsh people.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UKHospitality Cymru has said a new, fairer system that reduces the burden on high street businesses is required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}