Key points so far in Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement: Businesses have already created three jobs for every one lost in the public sector. Office of Budget Responsibility says 3.1m more jobs will be created by business until 2019 – far more than the 1m or so lost in the public sector. He described...
Bath Business News will provide up-to-the-minute coverage of Chancellor George Osborne’s crucial Autumn Statement later today, including instant reaction from regional business figures.
The Chancellor needs to do more to support commercial property developers as demand for business space increases in Bath, according to a market expert. John Mulholland, director at international consultants Jones Lang LaSalle, who has spent many years covering the city’s property scene, said: “The Government also needs to help support the flow of...
Business West, the organisation behind Bath Chamber of Commerce, is urging Chancellor George Osborne to reform business rates in his Autumn Statement tomorrow. Business rates have emerged as the key issue identified by business groups for reform, which they argue would deliver a much-needed boost to firms as the economy starts to recover. The...
Bath’s most famous visitor attraction and one of the area’s most innovative businesses are benefitting from the Prime Minister’s high-profile visit to China as head of the UK’s largest trade delegation to the fast-growing country. The city’s Roman Baths have signed up as a founding member of VisitBritain’s China Welcome Charter which could put...
Grant Associates, the Bath-based international landscape architecture firm, has joined a drive to help the UK’s creative companies win high-value contracts overseas. The Government’s trade boosting arm UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) will support a taskforce of the UK’s top 100 creative sector small and medium-sized enterprises to win overseas contracts worth £500m over...
