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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Dec- 2020 -16 DecemberNews
Restaurants face increased food wastage in Tier 3
The new tiered restrictions in London, Essex and Hertfordshire could see millions of pounds worth of food and drinks get thrown away, according to The Guardian. Kate Nicholls, chief executive for UKHospitality, told the paper that as with previous short-notice lockdowns, the new tiered restrictions will cause a “glut of…
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15 DecemberNews
Tier 3 will cause rise in business failures, UKH warns
UKHospitality has warned businesses will be pushed towards failure and more jobs will be put at risk as a result of the government’s announcement to move London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire into Tier 3 this week. The trade body said that the government’s tier system places an “unfair,…
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11 DecemberNews
Hospitality restrictions have halved economic growth, UKH claims
UKHospitality has claimed that restrictions on the country’s hospitality sector have almost halved the UK’s economic growth, with the situation only likely to get worse. The report follows the new figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which showed that nearly half (45%) of UK businesses currently trading…
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9 DecemberCoronavirus
UKH: New rent moratoria will help avoid ‘immediate bloodbath’
The recent extension to the lease forfeiture and debt enforcement moratoria will help avoid an “immediate bloodbath” of business failures across hospitality, but it must be accompanied by support to resolve Covid-related rent debt, UKHospitality has warned. The trade body has welcomed today’s announcement by communities secretary Robert Jenrick that…
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8 DecemberNews
UKH warns hospitality sector at ‘rent tipping point’
UKHospitality has warned that the sector is on a countdown to a “rent tipping-point” that will trigger a new year of hospitality business failures and potentially hundreds of thousands more jobs lost. The government has reportedly so far shielded businesses from eviction and the “aggressive enforcement activity” by landlords over…
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4 DecemberGovernment
UKHospitality calls for hospitality and tourism recovery fund
UKHospitality has appealed for the formation of a hospitality and tourism recovery fund that would support businesses who are yet to receive any form of government grant. The industry body is pushing for the fund as many businesses face increasing pressure to close, due to both the second lockdown and…
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Nov- 2020 -27 NovemberNews
UKH warns of £7.8bn trading loss in new tier system
UKHospitality had warned that under the new tier system £7.8bn worth of trading will be wiped out compared with 2019 if it lasts into the new year. The new government tier system has put 98% of the UK’s hospitality trade in Tier 2 and 3 regions. UKHospitality chief executive Kate…
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26 NovemberNews
UKH calls for increased government support
UKHospitality has called for increased government support, reiterating that hospitality jobs can “catalyse” the UK’s economic recovery, and avoid a further rise in unemployment. Commenting on the spending review announcement, Kate Nicholls, chief executive for UKHospitality, said hospitality jobs are at the “core of the grave unemployment” that is forecasted…
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24 NovemberCoronavirus
UKHospitality slams Covid Winter Plan
UKHospitality has criticised PM Boris Johnson’s ‘Covid Winter Plan’, warning that the government is at risk of “killing Christmas” for those who work in the hospitality sector. The trade body has said that the measures, which will see businesses in tier three permitted to provide takeaway only and those in…
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19 NovemberCoronavirus
UKH calls for greater clarity as lockdown nears end
UKHospitality has called for greater support for the hospitality sector following the second national lockdown, as well as “urgent clarity” on the tier system businesses will enter as the lockdown ends next month. Giving evidence to the House of Commons BEIS Committee, UKHospitality CEO Kate Nicholls argued that restrictions have…
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