Archive for August 2021
Business Needs Government to Produce an Autumn/Winter Strategy
Speaking to BBC Breakfast this morning, Shevaun Haviland called on government to bring forward a Covid strategy for the coming months, as well as contingency planning for the possibility of a variant evading the vaccine. She said: “What we’d really like to see is a contingency plan in place that looks to the next 3…
Read MoreChamber urges commitment to ‘levelling up’ as Eastern HS2 leg is shelved
The Chamber has questioned the Government’s decision to halt work on the Eastern leg of the HS2 rail scheme, saying it is back-tracking on its ‘levelling up’ agenda and its commitment to the North. The section of the North-South scheme to Nottingham, Sheffield and Leeds has been ‘shelved’ amid concerns about soaring costs, with all…
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