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The news section on Small Business UK allows you to keep up to date with the latest news, economic trends and regulatory developments affecting new and established UK small businesses.

Firms lose £19bn a year due to poor mobile networks

Poor mobile connection is costing small businesses on average one hour of working time each week per each employee, having a knock-on effect of costing UK economy £8bn a year in lost output

Business Technology

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Hospitality firms want help – only 37% are still profitable

Key hospitality groups are calling for support from the government to help with increasing costs caused by inflation

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Risk of small business failure halves in 2022

The risk of business failure has fallen over the last year because of an increasingly positive outlook from small businesses

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CBI calls for Cobra-style emergency committee for economy

Recession ‘a very live concern’ as CBI outlines 7 interventions to boost growth before autumn budget

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Nearly 80% of SMEs see cost-of-living crisis as biggest threat

A quarter of Britain’s small businesses ignore their business finances for fear of discovering how bad things really are

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Nearly 500,000 small firms ‘at risk of going bust’

Federation of Small Businesses calls on Rishi Sunak for more support to deal with ‘ticking timebomb’

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Euan Blair firm to train 5,000 SME apprentices free

Multiverse, founded by Euan Blair (son of ex-Prime Minister Tony), aims to train over 5,000 apprentices in SMEs – here's how to get involved

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7 business tips from Made in Chelsea star Jamie Laing

Jamie Laing, former Made in Chelsea star and co-founder of Candy Kittens, shares seven tips that he's learned from his time in business

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Euan Blair firm to train 5,000 SME apprentices free

Multiverse, founded by Euan Blair (son of ex-Prime Minister Tony), aims to train over 5,000 apprentices in SMEs – here's how to get involved

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7 business tips from Made in Chelsea star Jamie Laing

Jamie Laing, former Made in Chelsea star and co-founder of Candy Kittens, shares seven tips that he's learned from his time in business

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Sunak pledges to cut business tax in Autumn Budget

Rishi Sunak vowed to cut business taxes to encourage higher productivity and living standards in his speech at this year's CBI Annual Dinner

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Lending to small businesses hits all-time low

New findings from the FSB show successful finance applications plummeting to lowest level on record

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MP calls for banking dispute service to be scrapped

Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS) has only effected six awards since launch, despite being established to handle anything up to a thousand SME disputes

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Businesses call for immediate emergency Budget

British Chambers of Commerce call on chancellor Rishi Sunak to reverse National Insurance rise, slash VAT on energy bills to 5% and reinstate free Covid testing for businesses

Business Loans

A guide to getting a small business loan

Everything you need to know on what small business loans are and what types of loan are available for your business.

Partner content

What are the funding options for hospitality businesses?

Hospitality businesses have faced a number of challenges in the last couple of years. Find out what funding and support is available.

Employing & managing staff

The importance of vocational rehabilitation services for SMEs

In Aviva’s latest SME research*, 57 per cent of employers surveyed agreed that nowadays employees expect benefits to protect against loss of income or earnings. What do you offer your people?

Partner content

What are the benefits of business broadband?

Business broadband offers a host of advantages over standard domestic connections, here’s why you should be considering an upgrade