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Business secretary Vince Cable said today he has an “open-mind” about a free-of-tie option for licensees being included in the new statutory code of practice for the pub industry, which he announced yesterday.
The chair of the select committee looking into the pubco-tenant relationship has warned that a statutory code will not solve all the problems in the trade.
The Government now faces a major challenge in getting the legislation right over plans for a statutory code of practice and an independent adjudicator, shadow pubs minister Toby Perkins said on breakfast TV show Daybreak this morning.
On a recent retail inspection of a number of pubs within the newly-Cerberus-backed Admiral Taverns estate, Snifter was introduced to the traditional pub game, Bagatelle at the Olde Cottage Inn in Chester.
Charles Wells, the Bedford-based brewer and pub operator, hopes to continue acquisitions at a similar rate this year and has bought its ninth pub in France, chairman Paul Wells has told M&C Report.
The chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group has accused the Government of not thinking through its approach to regulate the pubco-tenant relationship.
When the Government agreed the self-regulation deal over the pubco-tenant relationship one of the major actions was the setting up of a Pubs Independent Conciliation & Arbitration Service or, as it is now called, PICA-Service.