The latest news affecting small and medium sized (SME) businesses in the UK
Mortgage approvals fell to the lowest level in six months in August as prospective homeowners stayed away from the property market and average mortgage costs approached…
2,500 ambitious tech talents will be recruited into digital roles in government by June 2025 through new apprenticeship and early talent programmes, the Cabinet Office has…
Parents of nursery and primary school-age children are facing more than £600 of extra childcare costs a month, a study has found, as employers demand staff…
A government credit guarantee has allowed Teesside stainless steel alloy inventor and manufacturer Paralloy to secure up to £26 million of a Santander UK bank guarantee…
The UK government has disbanded the independent advisory board of its Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) without any announcement amid a wider push to…
Five Labour mayors have urged Rishi Sunak not to scrap, delay or scale back HS2 as it would “leave swathes of the north with Victorian transport…
Scrapping inheritance tax would cost the government almost £15bn a year in lost revenue by 2032, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies
The US Federal Trade Commission has accused Amazon of wielding monopoly power to inflate prices and stifle innovation in a landmark lawsuit taking aim at Big…
Meta, the owner of Facebook, has paid £149 million to surrender lease on a London office block having not moved in any staff two years after…
Senior business leaders and trade bodies have backed Keir Starmer’s comments that Britain should not part from the European Union on standards ranging from the environment…
Stress was one of the biggest contributors to a rise in workplace absences over the past year, according to research that found the number of workers…
Rishi Sunak is “alarmed” by the escalating cost of HS2 amid claims that executives on the project have acted like “kids with the golden credit card”.
Offices in London have lost almost a fifth of their value over the past year, much more than blocks in most other European countries.
Screenwriters in the US say they have reached a tentative deal with studio bosses that could see them end a strike that has lasted nearly five…
Nissan has pledged to go fully electric in Europe by 2030, outpacing the watered-down ambitions announced by Rishi Sunak of the British government.