Wales’ fishing community is being invited to submit applications to a £1m fund to primarily help mitigate the ongoing impact Covid is having on the industry and adapt to the rapidly changing market conditions for seafood products. The European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF) is co-financed by the Welsh Government and the European Commission and has supported many projects in Wales since being introduced in 2014. The funding will support investments in the small scale coastal...
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The Renting Homes Act is the biggest change to housing law in Wales for decades. From 15 July 2022 the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 will change the way all landlords in Wales rent their properties. It will improve how we rent, manage, and live in rented homes in Wales. Who is affected by the new law? Social and private tenants, social and private landlords, including those who rent their properties through management companies or...
The Economic Resilience Fund (ERF) is targeted at businesses in the hospitality, leisure and attraction sectors and their supply chains who have been materially impacted by a greater than 50% reduction of turnover between 13 December 2021 and 14 February 2022. The funds seeks to compliment other COVID-19 response measures to support businesses, social enterprises and charitable organisations in Wales. The ERF will support: Businesses impacted between 13 December 2021 and 14 February 2022 and...
Local Authorities will deliver a discretionary fund for businesses ineligible for Non Domestic Rates support with a turnover of less than £85,000 via a short application process. Sole traders, freelancers and taxi drivers will be able to apply for £1,000 and businesses that employ people can apply for £2,000. This funding is also available to freelancers in the creative sectors. For further information visit Emergency Business Fund | Business Wales (gov.wales)
Under the Pensions Act 2008, every employer in the UK must put certain staff into a workplace pension scheme and contribute towards it. This is called 'automatic enrolment'. If you employ at least one person you are an employer and you have certain legal duties. It's important that you understand what to do and by when, so you can meet your automatic enrolment duties on time. Your legal duties begin on the day your first...
Unless a pregnant employee needs adjustments to working conditions for health and safety or pregnancy related reasons, you should treat them the same as any other employees. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) guidance offers simple do's and don'ts for employers to help them ensure they don't discriminate against those who are pregnant or on maternity leave. For further information please visit the EHRC website. The Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) updated web pages...
From 1 January 2022, anyone moving goods between Great Britain (GB) and the European Union (EU) through a Goods Vehicle Movement Service (GVMS) border location must be registered to use the GVMS service. See the full guidance on HMRC’s website for how to register. This new requirement does not currently apply to goods moving from the island of Ireland to GB, pre-January 1 arrangements will still apply as discussions on the Northern Ireland Protocol continue...
What is the Police CyberAlarm? The Police CyberAlarm is a free tool to help your business understand and monitor malicious cyber activity. Police CyberAlarm acts as a “CCTV camera” monitoring the traffic seen by your businesses’ connection to the internet. It will detect and provide regular reports of suspected malicious activity, enabling your business to minimise your vulnerabilities. Once you become a Police CyberAlarm member, you install a ‘CyberAlarm Virtual Server’ on your system, which...
HMRC is developing the system for tax checks that will apply to renewals of taxi driver and scrap metal site licences, among others, in England and Wales. The check will be integrated into the licencing application and agents will not be able to complete it on behalf of clients. From April 2022, the renewal of certain licences in the transport and scrap metal sectors will require the applicant to complete a tax check with HMRC...
First Minister, Mark Drakeford MS We can now look more confidently to the future and plan to start gradually removing the alert level two restrictions. We are today setting out a plan to return to alert level zero. As we have done previously, we will start with relaxing protections outdoors. We will make one immediate change – from tomorrow (15 January 2022), the number of people who can be present at outdoor events will rise...