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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Henry Saker-Clark

Businesses need reforms amid ‘similar pressure to pandemic’, committee warns

The Government needs a series of major reforms to arrest business closures and decline on the high street including cut costs, overhauling business rates and ending late payments, according an influential committee (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Archive)

The Government needs a series of major reforms to arrest business closures and decline on the high street – including cutting costs, overhauling business rates and ending late payments, according an influential committee.

A reported by Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee found that small business across the UK are now operating under pressures similar to, and in some cases worse than those experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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