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.

  • Mar- 2021 -
    5 March
    CoronavirusUKH warns business rates cap may endanger mid-sized firms

    UKH warns business rates cap may endanger mid-sized firms

    UKHospitality has warned that the £2m cap the government has imposed on business rates relief “could threaten the survival of jobs and businesses” for many mid-sized firms. The warning comes after the cap was unveiled as part of the chancellor’s budget announcement on Wednesday (3 March). As part of the…

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  • 4 March
    Trade Associations
    Hospitality industry welcomes budget package

    Hospitality industry welcomes budget package

    The UK hospitality industry has responded warmly to the confirmation of financial support in the government’s budget for this year. Yesterday (3 March), chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a £65bn support package for the economy as the country prepares to leave lockdown restrictions in April. Under the new budget, hospitality and…

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  • 3 March
    EducationHospitality sector urges gov to protect apprenticeship funding 

    Hospitality sector urges gov to protect apprenticeship funding 

    Hospitality industry leaders are calling on the government to “throw a protective ring” around apprenticeships funding and youth employment in the sector, in order to make the training and development of the future hospitality workforce a “cornerstone of the recovery”. Leaders from a cross-section of the industry, including charities, trade…

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  • 3 March
    GovernmentWelsh Gov grants £30m for hospitality, leisure, and tourism

    Welsh Gov grants £30m for hospitality, leisure, and tourism

    The Welsh Government has announced a £30m support package for hospitality, leisure, and tourism businesses impacted by the ongoing Covid-19 measures. The funding is aimed at businesses employing ten staff or over, recognising the higher level of operating costs that they face. Ken Skates, minister for the economy, transport and…

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  • 3 March
    CoronavirusSunak to extend furlough scheme until September

    Sunak to extend furlough scheme until September

    Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to extend the furlough scheme until September as part of his March Budget which will be announced today (3 March).  According to The Times, Sunak will state that the country is in a “moment of crisis” as he extends furlough for another five months, taking…

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  • 1 March
    Coronavirus‘Decisive financial support’ needed to save hospitality, says APPG

    ‘Decisive financial support’ needed to save hospitality, says APPG

    The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Hospitality and Tourism (APPG) is urging chancellor Rishi Sunak to provide “decisive financial support to protect sector businesses crucial to communities around the UK”. The plea comes in a letter signed by more than 80 MPs written to Sunak ahead of this week’s Budget, with…

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  • 1 March
    CoronavirusChancellor to unveil £5bn support package

    Chancellor to unveil £5bn support package

    Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to offer over 700,000 retail, hospitality and other businesses grants of up to £18,000 as part of a £5bn rescue package to be included in his Budget speech on Wednesday (3 March).  The new ‘Restart Grants’ will be directly distributed from local authorities from April…

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  • Feb- 2021 -
    23 February
    Government324,000 hospitality supply jobs at risk unless Gov takes action

    324,000 hospitality supply jobs at risk unless Gov takes action

    324,000 jobs within the UK’s hospitality supply chain are at risk unless “businesses receive immediate financial support from the government”, according to UKHospitailty.  The statement comes as part of research conducted by the group, where it was found that one in five jobs in the supplier workforce have already been…

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  • 23 February
    Trade AssociationsUKH: Sector ‘devastated’ by late reopening date

    UKH: Sector ‘devastated’ by late reopening date

    UKHospitality has claimed that the sector is “devastated” by the late reopening date for hospitality, adding that the chancellor has “just nine days” to save thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of jobs that simply “will not be there” without a substantial package of compensation. The news follows the…

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  • 19 February
    GovernmentHospitality included in Sadiq Khan’s £5m investment proposal

    Hospitality included in Sadiq Khan’s £5m investment proposal

    Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a new proposal to invest £5m in the eventual reopening of central London, including a campaign which hopes to drive tourism back to “hard-hit” hospitality and retail venues.  The mayor said he wants domestic tourism to be a central focus in London’s drive…

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