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#Budget2021 for pubs and brewers in the short term securing over £1.5 billion in support, including a beer duty freeze.

Bolton's high street and business centre, which has seen decline in recent years. Bolton North East MP Mark Logan said the financial commitment shows 'the Conservatives are serious about levelling-up'.The Tory MP shared the news on his Facebook page saying: "Rishi’s £23 MILLION for Bolton."That’s right...

direct to your inboxAs part of today's new budget announcement, chancellor Rishi Sunak updated the UK on duty tax on both alcohol and fuel.Many people had expected the cost of alcohol and fuel to rise after the Budget.However, Rishi has now announced that all alcohol duties will be frozen - news which will be welcomed by millions of people in the UK.The Chancellor also announced that "the planned increase in fuel duty is also cancelled."Rishi Sunak told MPs: “I can confirm that the planned

direct to your inboxThe limit on contactless payments is set to rise from £45 to £100.Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who will announce the plans in his 2021 Budget, said the change will boost the retail sector and help protect jobs in the UK.The change will legally come into force from today, but firms will need to make the necessary systems changes before being able to offer customers the higher limit.The UK has been allowed to make the change after leaving the EU, which limits contactless payments to

direct to your inboxThe Chancellor is set to extend the furlough scheme when he unveils the 2021 Budget on Wednesday afternoon.Rishi Sunak is expected to announce that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme will remain in place until September - two months later than its most recent end date.But the government's contribution will be reduced from July with employers asked to pay in alongside the taxpayer for the cost of furloughed employees.The scheme, has protected more than 11 million jobs since

Joe Biden rather than repeat the "failures of the past" ahead of setting out the Budget.Ian Blackford said he fears "more of the same" from the Chancellor after a decade of austerity under Conservative governments.And the SNP Westminster leader insisted the UK should look towards the response of President Biden after the House of Representatives passed a 1.9 trillion dollars Covid relief bill.Blackford said: "I think what the Covid pandemic has shown is the basic inequalities that exist in the

David Linden has called on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to make the Universal Credit uplift permanent as part of a wider post-covid recovery programme.The Glasgow East MP said axing the uplift - worth £1040 a year to claimants - at a time of rising unemployment would be "unconscionable".Linden, the Nationalists' spokesman on work and pensions, spoke out as the Tory Chancellor prepares to deliver a Budget like no other in recent history.The UK Government says it will set out "the next phase of the plan

2017 RICS benchmarking figures put the national average rent on pubs at £37,691 - nearly twice Sunak's top estimate. Many have voiced concern that any support for hospitality that will be announced at Wednesday's budget could be based on these figures, which are described as being 'fundamentally wrong'.It could mean that pubs and restaurants would not receive - and have not received so far - the sums they need to survive through the coming months of restrictions and closures.

coronavirus vaccine roll out will receive a £1.65 billion boost to help it meet the target of offering a dose to every adult by July 31.

direct to your inbox The issue of vaccine passports is one which is beset with complex moral and legal considerations, but it could pave the way out of the coronavirus pandemic and for more normal life to return.

Rishi Sunak has indicated he will extend emergency support packages as the coronavirus lockdown is unwound, and did not rule out first raising taxes before cutting them ahead of the next election.The Chancellor insisted ahead of Wednesday's Budget that he is in favour of low taxes but said he needs to repair the public finances from the "enormous shock" of the pandemic.He said he does not "recognise" suggestions he told MPs in private that he would raise taxes now before cutting them in a