Rural Business Category
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Details of owners / controllers UK companies to be made public
David Cameron has announced that details of who really owns and controls UK companies are to be made publicly accessible. A new registry will contain information on individuals with an interest in more than 25% of a company’s shares or voting rights, or who otherwise control the way it is run. The registry will probably be based on the disclosure regime that currently applies to information on company shareholders, with Companies House holding, and make publicly accessible, ...
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Business views on EU powers invited
Businesses are being invited to respond to the Government's review of the balance of competences (the power to act in a particular area) between the UK and the EU. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has today launched a call for evidence asking business groups and other stakeholders to submit their views on its "social and employment" review. Issues for consideration include employment rules, social protection and health and ...
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Review of EU powers over UK agriculture and fisheries
People with knowledge of farming and fishing industries have been invited to share their views on how membership of the EU has affected the UK national interest. The calls for evidence form part of the Government’s Balance of Competences Review, which is an analysis of the scope of EU powers and the effects they have on the UK. The agriculture report will examine EU powers for the Common Agricultural Policy, plant health and forestry; the Fisheries report ...
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CMM heads for Enviro-Entrepreneur Bootcamp
CMM managing director, Graham Allen, will be attending this year's Enviro-Entrepreneur Bootcamp as a presenter and dragon. The event, which takes place 13th - 15th November 2013 at Nottingham Clean Tech Centre, is aimed at aspiring and new entrepreneurs looking to start and grow a business in the low carbon and the environmental goods and services sectors. Whether you are already the owner of a small business, a recent graduate, a post-doc or a researcher you are invited ...
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Ten rural areas could get fuel duty tax cut
The UK has submitted an application to the European Commission (EC) to extend the rural fuel rebate scheme to ten new towns. Following an assessment of all the evidence, ministers reckon three towns in England and seven in Scotland meet the criteria, and in line with European Union law, the UK now needs to secure approval for the expanded scheme from the EC. An application for the ten towns and the supporting ...
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£6m funding for local authority heat networks
A £6 million grant funding programme has been launched to help Local Authorities in England and Wales develop new heating and cooling networks, and expand existing ones. To collect a share of the funding, applicants need to submit innovative proposals for networks that, as much as possible, draw heat energy from renewable, sustainable or recoverable sources. The bidding process will continue for 18 months through a series of six rounds with winning criteria including: the potential for ...
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Road freight industry encouraged to benefit from trailer trial
Freight operators are being given another chance to join a 10-year trial enabling them to use longer goods vehicles on UK roads, Transport Minister, Stephen Hammond, announced today. When it was launched in 2012, the Government’s longer semi-trailer trial enabled freight operators to bid for a share of 1,800 vehicle allocations, but so far around 1,250 allocations remain unused. However, this is not a vehicle for all sectors and is reckoned to be most beneficial on journeys ...
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FSA publishes new plan to tackle campylobacter
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has outlined a new strategy to reduce the number of people getting ill from campylobacter. Campylobacter is the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK, thought to be responsible for about 460,000 cases of food poisoning, 22,000 hospitalisations and 110 deaths each year, and a significant proportion of these cases come from poultry. Reducing cases of campylobacter is the FSA’s top food safety priority but monitoring shows there is no ...
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Farm regulations to be simplified
The Government is proposing to make farm inspections better targeted, so that farmers who consistently demonstrate high standards will be inspected less. In efforts to reduce the burden of regulation, ministers are also proposing to introduce a new IT system for all funding under the Common Agricultural Policy in England by 2015. They are also looking at how to make it easier to move livestock by having the same requirements for all livestock, so that people who farm ...
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Gangmaster ordered to pay £45,000 compensation
Unlicensed gangmaster, Christopher James Blakeney, of Conock, Devizes, has been handed a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years and has been ordered to pay £45,000 in direct compensation to the workers he supplied illegally. The Wiltshire-based recruitment consultant systematically exploited around 60 Filipino workers and illegally supplied them to dairy farms across the UK. However, the chief executive of the Gangmaster Licensing Authority (GLA), Paul Broadbent, says the sentence imposed does not "fit the crime", given ...
