Locally-Administered Business Rates Relief (E)

Business
Views on the design and implementation of the locally-administered discretionary small business rates relief scheme announced in Spring Budget 2017 are being sought by the Dept for Communities and Local Government.  10/3/2017 ‘Business Rates: Consultation on proposals on the design
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Rules for Conducting Insolvency Proceedings (E, W)

Finance and Legal
It will be legally permissible to use modern electronic technologies to replace paper communications and physical meetings in insolvency procedures after 6 April, when ‘The Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016’ will implement changes made to the Insolvency Act 1986
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Double Penalties for Motorists using Mobiles While Driving (E, S, W)

Finance and Legal
The penalties awaiting motorists who use their mobiles when driving doubled on 1 March, when a tough new regime was launched with a week’s co-ordinated enforcement that involved police forces across the country sending out extra patrols to crack down
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Setting The Personal Injury Discount Rate (UK).

Finance and Legal
01/03/2017.  Updated 4/4/2017. Possible changes to the way the personal injury discount rate1) is calculated are discussed in a consultation published by the Ministry of Justice in response to widespread concerns that the Lord Chancellor’s recent decision2) to reduce the
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Billing system failures cost British Gas £9.5m (UK)

Finance and Legal
Micro businesses affected by failures in a billing system introduced by British Gas Business in March 2014 will receive direct payments from the £9.5m that the supplier was required to pay in redress after an Ofgem investigation found it failed
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