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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Sep- 2020 -24 SeptemberCoronavirus
Quarter of hospitality businesses likely to collapse without support, survey finds
One quarter of hospitality businesses believe they may collapse in the next three months if they do not receive further government support, according to the latest survey from industry leaders. Pub and hospitality trade bodies, British Beer and Pub Association, UKHospitality and British Institute of Innkeeping, held a survey of…
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22 SeptemberCoronavirus
PM announces new 10pm curfew for hospitality
All pubs, bars and restaurants will be required to close by 10pm from Thursday 24 September, the prime minister has announced, as the government aims to curb the rise in coronavirus infections. All venues will now be required to operate via table-service unless offering takeaway and retail and indoor hospitality…
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21 SeptemberCoronavirus
Fewer than 5% of new transmissions linked to restaurants, PHE finds
4.7% of new incidents of acute respiratory infections (ARIs) were linked to food outlets and restaurants in the period between 7 August and 13 September, according to the latest surveillance report from Public Health England (PHE). It comes despite health secretary Matt Hancock telling BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that…
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17 SeptemberCoronavirus
UKH warns of major hospitality job losses without employment support
UKHospitality (UKH) has warned that at least 900,000 hospitality jobs are at risk unless the UK Government offers a sector-specific package of employment support that helps businesses retain valuable workers. Giving evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee, chief executive Kate Nicholls praised the chancellor’s recent ‘Plan for…
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15 SeptemberTrade Associations
Government must act to stop landlord bloodbath, says UKHospitality
UKHospitality (UKH) has written to the government warning that failure to immediately act to solve the rent crisis will result in a ‘‘bloodbath’’ of job losses and business failures. Hospitality businesses have been shielded from eviction over the last six months through the lease forfeiture and debt enforcement moratoria, which…
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10 SeptemberCoronavirus
HospitalityUnite backs Kickstart initiative
HospitalityUnite, an initiative set up to help hospitality workers find alternative employment during lockdown, has teamed up with UKHospitality, Springboard, The Scottish Tourism Alliance and The Youth Group to back the Government’s Kickstart scheme. It will provide a free online service to make it easy for both hospitality businesses and…
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9 SeptemberTrade Associations
UKHospitality slams new PHE targets
UKHospitality has come out against new calorie and salt reduction targets for eating out and takeaways, which were announced by Public Health England yesterday (8 September). The new targets, while voluntary, aim to reduce excessive calories and salts in everyday foods by up to 20% by 2024. The government is…
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5 SeptemberCoronavirus
UK diners eat 100 million meals through EOHO
Over 100 million meals have been claimed for under the government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme in August, the Treasury has revealed. Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the scheme has helped protect the livelihoods of 1.8 million people working in the hospitality sector, as well as drive the nation’s economic…
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2 SeptemberBusiness
Hospitality leaders call on government to help boost London footfall
Business leaders in the hospitality sector operating in London are calling on the government to help boost footfall in the capital. Over 90 hospitality business owners, experts and representatives signed a letter requesting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan deliver a coordinated campaign to support…
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Aug- 2020 -20 AugustCoronavirus
Trade bodies pen open letter urging for ‘robust’ Test and Trace
Industry trade bodies have penned an open letter calling on the sector to maintain “robust” procedures when implementing Test and Trace or risk seeing guidelines “significantly strengthened”. In the letter, written by UKHospitality, The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) and the British Institute of Innkeeping, said that Test and…
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