Kate Nicholls
This archive features our reporting on Kate Nicholls OBE — a key voice in the UK’s hospitality and foodservice policy landscape. As Chair of UKHospitality, Nicholls plays a central role in lobbying government, shaping regulation, and influencing the commercial environment in which restaurants, pubs, bars, cafés, and catering firms operate. Catering Today covers Nicholls’ statements, policy positions, and leadership activity because her work directly affects the trading conditions, labour challenges, and long-term resilience of foodservice businesses. For operators navigating rising costs, staffing pressures, or post-pandemic recovery, her advocacy and insights are both timely and consequential.
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May- 2022 -25 MayBusiness
National rail strike will ‘jeopardise’ hospitality recovery, says UKH
UKHospitality has warned that RMT’s proposed national rail strike this summer will “further jeopardise” the recovery of hospitality businesses working to rebuild following the pandemic, in the face of rising costs and a fall in consumer confidence. Kate Nicholls, UKHospitality CEO, said disruption to the rail network will discourage both…
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23 MayRestaurants
UKH: hospitality the ‘solution’ to gov’s levelling up policy
UKHospitality has released a new report, Level up hospitality – level up society, which aims to “highlight how the sector is positioned to deliver growth and opportunity across the country and play its part in generating jobs and economic growth”. The report identifies the six areas in which the UKH…
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20 MayNews
UKH calls for online sales tax
In its response to the government’s consultation on the introduction of an online sales tax, UKHospitality has called for consideration to be given to property-based industries such as hospitality. The trade body’s submission has also called for such a tax to be ear-marked to provide a “targeted reduction to business…
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10 MayTrade Associations
UKH welcomes Gov ban on exclusivity clauses for lowest paid
UKHospitality has welcomed the news announced by the business minister Paul Scully that the Government is to widen its ban on exclusivity clauses to include those earning less than £123 a week. The proposals will widen the ban on exclusivity clauses, which restrict staff from working for multiple employers, to…
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4 MayNews
UKH calls on Gov to simplify post-16 qualifications to build talent pipeline
UK Hospitality has urged the Government to “simplify and streamline’ post-16 qualifications in order to “build a talent pipeline for the future. It was responding to the Department for Education’s consultation into post-16 qualifications at level 2 and below. Kate Nicholls, chief executive, said: “With more than 8,000 qualifications for…
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Apr- 2022 -29 AprilNews
Hospitality launches action plan to tackle sexual harassment
Hospitality has agreed a strict “zero-tolerance” approach to sexual harassment with the launch of a new action plan. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and UKHospitality have worked together to produce a “practical resource” to stop the harassment of hospitality staff being seen as ‘just part of the job’.…
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20 AprilGovernment
Gov to award CMA new power to ban fake reviews
The government is consulting a new law that will make it illegal to pay someone to write or host a fake review. It revealed this is so people are not “cheated” by bogus ratings. Fake reviews will be tackled by consulting on a new law against: Commissioning someone to write…
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13 AprilTrade Associations
UKH launches local election manifesto highlighting community recovery
UKHospitality has published a raft of recommendations for local government ahead of elections in early May, stating the sector’s “crucial value” as an agent for positive change for post-Covid communities across the nation. UKHospitality’s Manifesto 2022: Revitalising Local Communities sets out a dozen ways in which local authorities, councillors and…
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11 AprilTrade Associations
UKH says sector ‘must help disabled’ people, but warns against monitoring
The hospitality industry “can lead the way” in helping disabled people to flourish, according to UKHospitality, but it also warned against “inappropriate practises”. UKHospitality said that the important personal qualities and skills of disabled people are valued in the sector, but it warned that disability monitoring and reporting could lead…
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5 AprilRestaurants
UKH calls for more support to help industry meet biodiversity regulations
UKH has called on the government to provide more support for hospitality venues to enable them to meet its biodiversity regulations. The trade body cautioned against “placing burdensome regulations on businesses already struggling to get their post-covid recoveries off the ground”, urging the government to “strike a balance between protecting…
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