National Press Releases

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Work experience under threat, warns FSBPaper rounds and work experience for school pupils are being threatened by complicated and expensive new checks on employers, the FSB has warned.
Adam Hart-Davis joins FSBs Keep Trade Local CampaignThe Federation of Small Businesses Keep Trade Local campaign today received the backing of the scientist, social historian and broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis.
Grocery sector inquiry is a failure, says FSBThe Federation of Small Businesses said that small, independent shops have been let down by the Competition Commission in its inquiry into the grocery sector.
FSB calls for town centre parking rethinkThe Federation of Small Businesses has called on local authorities to rethink town centre parking policies ahead of local elections in England and Wales in May.
FSB urges local authorities to protect their communitiesThe Federation of Small Businesses has launched a Small Business Manifesto to press local authorities to champion small businesses ahead of local elections in England on May 1.
Government ignores its own rules on better regulationThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) says that government is failing to meet its commitments to common commencement dates and to reducing the regulatory burden.
Post Office closures will hit local communities, says FSBAhead of todays House of Commons vote on the future of local post offices, the Federation of Small Businesses has called on politicians to take every possible step to retain the post office network.
FSB urges Minister to avert nursery school crisisThe Federation of Small Businesses has written to Beverley Hughes MP, the Minister of State at the Department of Children, Schools and Families to warn of a looming crisis in nursery care.
FSB Chairman wants to Keep Trade LocalTomorrow sees the beginning of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) Annual Conference at the Hammersmith Novotel. The Conference will be opened by National Chairman, John Wright when he will tell Conference delegates that yesterday’s 4p raise on beer will hit community pubs.
FSB welcomes Budget speech with no nasty surprisesThe Federation of Small Businesses welcomed a Budget speech with few alarms and surprises for the UKs 4.5 million-strong small business community.
Government loses trust of small businessesAn overwhelming majority of small businesses have said that their confidence in the Government has diminished since the 2007 Budget.
FSB satisfied with in-line inflation move in National Minimum WageThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is today happier with the announcement on the latest move in the National Minimum Wage which does not replicate past above-inflation increases.
Small business owners are not immigration officers, says FSBThe Federation of Small Businesses has criticised new legislation on employing foreign workers that will impose unrealistic expectations and draconian fines on employers.
Fuel costs affect us all, says FSBThe Federation of Small Businesses is urging the Government not to go ahead with a fuel duty increase of 2p per litre, planned for April 1 2008.
FSB calls for Peers to save small retailersThe Federation of Small Businesses today called on Peers to support the Retail Development Bill, which will receive its second reading in the House of Lords tomorrow (22 February).
FSB asks Government to lay off small firmsThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is urging the Government to lay off small businesses in the 2008 Budget. In its annual submission to the Treasury on behalf of its 210,000 members the FSB recommends action to curb the proposed fuel rise charge. It is also firmly opposed to the Government’s draconian attack on the tax arrangements of family firms.
Competition Commission tinkering will not work, says FSBThe Federation of Small Businesses today criticised the Competition Commissions proposed remedies in its inquiry into the grocer market.
FSB Conference 2008 attracts big speakersBoris Johnson (Conservative), Brian Paddick (Liberal Democrat) and Sian Berry (Green Party) will all undergo a grilling in a London Mayoral Question Time session at the Annual Conference of the Federation of Small Businesses’ (FSB). Present Mayor Ken Livingstone has also been invited and is expected to attend. The Mayoral Question Time will be independently chaired by the former news presenter, Moira Stuart.
FSB urges integrity of Camden Market re-developmentWith up to three hundred small businesses having suffered in last weekend’s catastrophic fire at London’s famous Camden Lock Market the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is warning that the subsequent re-development needs to retain integrity and loyalty to the small business owners affected.
FSB welcomes revisions to capital gains tax plansThe Federation of Small Businesses has welcomed the Governments changes to its plans to reform capital gains tax. But the UKs biggest business organisation warned that small businesses trust in the Government has been damaged by the original proposals and the uncertainty over revisions to them.

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