345 hospitality businesses sign open letter to the chancellor

More than 340 hospitality businesses have signed UKHospitality’s open letter to the chancellor urging significant intervention to support the sector ahead of the Budget.

 

Rachel Reeves will be delivering the Budget on 26 November, which is in just over two weeks’ time.

 

To mark the occasion, 345 hospitality businesses ranging from Greene King to IHG Hotels & Resorts have called on the government to better support the industry as the impact of the last Budget was “immediate, concentrated and socially regressive”.

 

Over the past year, more than 80,000 jobs in the sector have been lost, with one Conservative MP warning hospitality is being “taxed out of existence” during a debate in Parliament in July.

 

Signatories including Marston’s, Stonegate, Wagamama, Butlin’s and Big Table Group have urged the chancellor to lower business rates by delivering the maximum discount for hospitality properties under £500,000 rateable value, fix National Insurance Contributions to boost jobs and cut VAT on hospitality.

 

The letter said: “We are writing in advance of your forthcoming Budget as a sector united behind one message: deliver change for hospitality at this Budget so that we can get back to growth.

 

“Many businesses have either closed or cancelled planned expansion. Young people and those who work part time have seen their opportunities narrow and the benefit bill has grown as a result. Towns and rural and coastal areas have been hit harder than the big cities due to the prevalence of hospitality. Consumer prices have risen.

 

“We are asking for urgent action at the Budget, so we can support your goals to get young people and the economically inactive into work, regenerate high streets and boost tourism and, ultimately, drive economic growth.” 

 

Kate Nicholls, chair of UKHospitality, added: “This extraordinary coalition demonstrates the united view of hospitality that there needs to be urgent action at the Budget.

 

“The impact of the last Budget was devastating. Business closures, job losses, curtailed investment, consumer price rises and lost opportunities for young people are all direct impacts of the choice made to inflict £3.4b of additional annual cost on our sector. Without action, we will see these impacts continue and intensify.

 

“In two weeks’ time, these businesses and the millions of people they employ need to see measures to reduce hospitality’s cost burden and back our sector.” 

 

UKHospitality’s open letter to the chancellor can be accessed here.

 

The full list of participating businesses included:

 

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777 Hotels

AC by Marriott Birmingham hotel

AC by Marriott Salford Quays

Admiral Taverns

Ailantus Hotels

All Our Bars

Anglian Country Inns

Arc Inspirations

Arcturus Group

Ashdown Pub Company

Axed

Bailiffgate hotel

Bailiffscourt

BALPPA

Bankside Hotel, Autograph Collection

Bar Burrito

Battlesteads hotel

Beamish Hall

BEAR

Beds and Bars

Bedford Lodge hotel

Beer and Buns

Belfont Hotels

Berry Head hotel

Bewliehill

Big Table Group

Bijou Peterborough

Blind Tiger Inns

Bloomsyard

Bone Daddies

Bootlegger Bars

Bourne Leisure

BOX

Breadstall Pizza

Breal and Calveton

Brend Collection

BrewDog

Brighton Pier Group

Brooklands hotel

Brother Marcus

Brunning and Price

Burger King UK

Butchies Fried Chicken

Butcombe Group

Butlins

BWH Hotels GB

Calcot Manor & Spa

Cambscuisine Group

Caravan

Castle Green hotel

Castlewood Hotels

Cedar Court Hotels

Celtic Catering Partnership

CERU Restaurants

Cherry Equity Partners

Chester Hospitality Association

Chester Race Company

Chilli Yard t/a Chilli Barn & Mistal Kitchen

Chopstix

Clayton Hotel Cambridge

Clayton Hotel Glasgow

Clayton Hotel Leeds

Concessions

Congham Hall

Crowne Plaza Chester

Crowne Plaza Newcastle

Crowne Plaza Plymouth

Crowne Plaza Solihull

Cycas Hospitality t/a Moxy Slough & Residence Inn by Marriott

Dakota Hospitality

Dakota Leeds

Dart Marina hotel

Delta Hotels by Marriott Worsley Park Country Club

Disco Bowl

Donnington Group

Doubletree by Hilton Newcastle Airport

Doubletree Manchester Airport

Drusillas Park

Elangeli Hospitality

ELIOR UK

Elite Hotels

English Lakes Hotels, Resorts & Venues

ETM Group

Exclusive Collection

Exhibit Bars

Faber Restaurants

Fabric Life

Farmer J

Farncombe Estate

Fest & Revel Group

Foundation Group

Four Points Flex by Sheraton London, Shoreditch East

Fulham Shore

Fuller, Smith and Turner

G & M Leisure

Gail’s

Game Saints Lincoln

Game Saints Sheffield

Gaucho

Genuine Restaurants

Glendola Leisure Group

Gonville Hotels, the Maids Head hotel

Good Life Eatery

Gough Hotels

Green and Fortune

Greene King

Gusto Pronto

Hall & Woodhouse

Hambledon Wineries

Hampton by Hilton Sheffield

Hampton by Hilton Stockton

Happy Face Pizza

Haven Holidays

Heartwood Collection

Heron & Brearley

Hickory’s Smokehouse

Hilton

Hilton Garden Inn Sunderland

Hilton Garden Inn, Bristol

Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5

Hippodrome Casino

Holiday Inn Coventry

Holiday Inn Gloucester - Cheltenham

Holiday Inn London - Luton Airport

Holiday Inn Newcastle Jesmond

Holiday Inn Newcastle South

Holiday Inn Southampton Eastleigh

Holiday Inn Washington

Honest Burgers

HOP Vietnamese

Hospitality Association York (HAY)

Hotel Indigo Newcastle

House of Daniel Thwaites

House of Song

Hyatt Place Hyatt House hotel

Ibis Styles Leeds

IHG Hotels & Resorts

Ilsington Hotel & Spa

Imperial hotel

Inception Group

Incipio Group

Innis & Gunn

Innkeeper’s Collection

Interpub

Jack Solomons Club

Jesmond Dene House

JKS Restaurants

Joe Blake’s

Jump Xtreme & That Fun Place

JW Lees Brewery

K10 Japanese Restaurants

Karolina Spedding

Kerb

KFC UK&I

Kuvi Hospitality

Laine

Lake District Country Hotels

Lakeside Hotel & Spa, Cumbria

Lantana

Lavval Restaurants (formerly Spaghetti House)

Leaf Hospitality

LIMA Group

Lina Stores, White Rabbit Projects

Linton Lodge Oxford

Little Gems Country Dining

Livelyhood

Liverpool Hospitality Association

Llandudno Holidays

Llewelyn’s & Lulu’s

Loungers

Lovat Parks

LTC

Lucky Saint

Lucky Voice

Lumley Castle hotel

Macdonald Hotels

Maldron Cathedral Quarter

Maldron Hotel Glasgow

Maldron Hotel Liverpool

Maldron Hotel Manchester City Centre

Maldron Hotel Newcastle

Maldron Hotel Shoreditch

Malmaison and Hotel du Vin

Mamma Dough

Manchester Hotel Association

Manchester Marriott Hotel Piccadilly

Marriott V&A Manchester

Marsham Court hotel

Marston’s

Maverick Venue Management

McManus Pub Co

Mercure Piccadilly Manchester

Merlin Entertainments

Mermaid London, Gold Restaurant, Shuk

Mildreds & Mallow

Mission Mars

Mitchells & Butlers

Mollie’s Motels & Restaurants

Mowgli StreetFood

Moxy & Residence Inn Slough

Native Manchester

NEOS Hospitality

New Craven Hall

Nightcap

North East Hotel Association

Northcote hotel

Oakman Inns

Ockenden Manor

Ole & Steen Lagkagehuset

Oriole Bar

Oxford and Cambridge Club

Paddy & Scott’s Coffee

Paragon

Parkdean Resorts UK

Passyunk Avenue

Paultons Park

Pizza Express

Pizza Pilgrims

PizzaLuxe Group

Pho

Pope Street Bar & Kitchen

Popeyes

Portobello Pubs & Bars

Pottingshed Bars and Gardens

Prime Steak and Grill

Pub People Company

Public House

Punch Pubs

RadissonBlu hotel

Ramada Encore by Wyndham, Newcastle-Gateshead

Red Engine

RedCat Hospitality

Reform Club

Restaurant St Barts

Rileys Sports Bars

Rio Brazilian Steakhouse

Rola Wala

Rosa’s Thai

Rowhill Grange Hotel & Utopia Spa

Royal Armouries

Royal Lancaster London

Rutland Inn Company

Safari Play Venues

Santo Remedio Mexican Restaurants

Santo Vino

Savior Bars

Seafood Pub Company

Seren

Simons Bars

Six by Nico

Shepherd Neame

SN Melbourne Street

Snowdonia Hospitality & Leisure

Sophie’s Steakhouse

Speakeasy Entertainment

Squires Fish restaurant

St Austell Brewery

St Christopher’s Inns

Stange & Co Pub Company

Stanley Pubs

Starboard Hotels

Staybridge Suites London - Vauxhall

Staycity

Sticks’n’Sushi

Stockvale Investments (Adventure Island)

Stonegate Group

Supercity Apart-hotels

Teamsport Karting

The Alan Hotel Manchester

The Alchemist Bars & Restaurants

The Beefy Boys

The Breakfast Club Cafes

The Calcot Collection

The Chesterford Group

The Coaching Inn Group

The Evolv Collection

The Fired Up Collective

The Hollies hotel

The In and Out Club

The Inn at Whitewell

The Inn on the Green

The Lordleaze hotel

The Lovat Loch Ness

The Lowry hotel

The Master Innholders

The Met Leeds

The No Work Club Peterborough

The Oak - Bromley

The Other House OpCo Holdings

The Painswick

The Parkgate hotel

The Queens hotel

The Queensberry Hotel & Olive Tree restaurant

The Revel Collective

The Salad Project

The Shelbourne hotel

The Spread Eagle hotel (Midhurst)

The Torridon

The Travellers Club

Thorley Taverns

Thunderbird Fried Chicken

Thurlestone Estates

Tokyo Industries

Tom Kerridge Restaurants

Tom’s Lyme Regis

Tomahawk Steakhouse

Tonkotsu

Tortilla

Tossed

Towy Collective

TRG

Trispan

UBH Hotels Manchester

UKHospitality

Upham Inns

Urban Hospitality

Urban Village Pubs

Vacherin

Valiant Pub Company

Valor Hospitality UK & Europe

Vectis Ventures

Village Hotel Leeds North

Village Hotels

voco Fareham - Solent

voco Manchester City Centre

voco Southampton

Vulcan Park Entertainment

Wafflemeister

Walcot Group Bath

Wagamama

Wahaca

Warner Hotels

Wasabi

WatchHouse

Webb Hotel Group

Wells & Co

WH Pubs

Whitbread

Wivenhoe House hotel

Woodlands Tea Room

WT Hotels t/a Lanes hotel

YHA (England & Wales)

YO!

Young’s Pub

Yummy Collection

Zaza Restaurants