Greg Mulholland

Lords accept amendments to Neighbourhood Planning Bill

26-Apr-2017 By Liam Coleman

Pub campaigners cheered yesterday as the House of Lords backed amendments to the Neighbourhood Planning Bill, meaning it will now receive Royal Assent and become law.

Are ACVs an asset to the pub trade?

06-Feb-2017 By Liam Coleman

With the law around assets of community value set to be reviewed. Here’s what the industry needs to do to make the legislation of real value to pubs.

Route clear for Heineken's Punch pubs takeover

01-Feb-2017 By Liam Coleman

Heineken is now the only remaining bidder for a portfolio of 1,900 Punch pubs after rival bidder Emerald Investment confirmed that it would not pursue its bid further.

The best-laid plans - what more can be done to protect pubs?

20-Jan-2017 By Liam Coleman

All too often pubs close down and are turned into houses and shops, so are beloved and valued community pubs being given enough protection by legislation? 

Exclusive

Mulholland looks to work with successor at Save the Pub Group

16-Jan-2017 By Liam Coleman

Outgoing chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group (APPSPG), Greg Mulholland, has said that he is looking to "work together" with the group's new chair, Toby Perkins - despite being ousted by him as group chair.

Save the Pub Group

Industry calls on new Save the Pub chair for business rates support

13-Jan-2017 By Sara Hussein

The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) and the British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) have called on the new chairman of Save the Pub Group for more support on business rates. 

Save the Pub Group

Mulholland replaced as Save the Pub Group chair

10-Jan-2017 By Nikkie Sutton

Greg Mulholland has been replaced as chair of the Save the Pub Group by Labour MP Toby Perkins.

PCA

PCA Newby bids to 'draw a line' under conflict of interest concerns

20-Dec-2016 By Helen Gilbert

The pubs code adjudicator (PCA) has published full details of his interest in Fleurets in a bid to "draw a line" under conflict of interest concerns.

Ale guide

Ale guide highlights town’s pub success

18-Oct-2016 By Nikkie Sutton

An ale trail guide which has been updated and relaunched, has highlighted the success of the pubs in a Leeds village.

Big Interview

The Big Interview: Greg Mulholland on controversy, Super-ACVs and the pubs code

21-Sep-2016 By Oli Gross

Taking a five-minute stroll from one pub in Otley to another with the town’s MP, Greg Mulholland, is long enough to bump into three smiling faces of local licensees keen to greet their local politician.

Paul Newby

Is Newby conflicted? Key points about the new pubs code adjudicator

20-May-2016 By Oli Gross

Paul Newby’s appointment as pubs code adjudicator has come under intense scrutiny amid claims of conflict of interest, culminating in a grilling at a Business Innovation and Skills select committee last week. The Publican’s Morning Advertiser looks at...

Legislation

Pubs code published with changes to MRO

14-Apr-2016 By James Evison

The government's response to the consultation on the pubs code has been published with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills making a number of changes to the code

Editorial

Pubs code: "We need to set emotion aside and work together"

19-Nov-2015 By Ed Bedington

In my experience, the art of negotiation and debate is a fine one — being able to manage the situation in a professional and calm manner is crucial in getting your point across.

What are Jeremy Corbyn's views on pubs?

14-Sep-2015 By James Evison

Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the Opposition, is a teetotaller, and despite delivering his victory speech in a Westminster pub, he hasn’t spoken often on them in parliament. But that hasn’t stopped him supporting a wide range of pub-related motions...

General election 2015

Pub champion MPs celebrate election victory

08-May-2015 By Emily Sutherland

The 2015 general election has proved successful for pub loving MPs, with Andrew Griffiths, Greg Mulholland, Kris Hopkins and Toby Perkins all keeping their seats.

Mulholland launches crowd-funding election page

20-Apr-2015 By Emily Sutherland

Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate and pub campaigner Greg Mulholland has launched a crowd-funding page to raise funds for his re-election battle.

Comment

Leader: First steps taken on pubs code road

02-Apr-2015 By Mike Berry

Last Thursday was a hugely significant day in the history of the pub trade as the Small Business Bill received royal assent and became law.

Statutory code: Greg Mulholland paves way for free-of-tie amendment

03-Jun-2014 By James Wallin

Save the Pub group chairman Greg Mulholland MP seems set to table an amendment to the Government’s pubco statutory code proposals.

West Yorkshire campaign group urges pubco to reopen pub for Tour de France

18-Feb-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

A West Yorkshire campaign group has written to Enterprise Inns CEO Simon Townsend urging for the reopening of a pub in time for the Tour de France in July 2014.

West Yorkshire campaign group urges pubco to sell pub to local

19-Nov-2013 By Noli Dinkovski

A campaign group hoping to save a closed West Yorkshire pub has called on its owner to sell the property, so it can re-open under local ownership.

Statutory Code: Vince Cable claims he will not be 'intimidated by scaremongering'

15-Oct-2013 By Michelle Perrett

Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Vince Cable said he will not “be intimidated by scaremongering” over the introduction of a statutory code and adjudicator.

Statutory code: Mulholland claims pub closure in Prime Minister’s constituency highlights need for pubco reform

07-May-2013 By Michelle Perrett

Greg Mulholland, MP, campaign coordinator for Fair Deal for Your Local and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group, has raised the issue of pubco reform ahead of a demonstration at a closed pubco pub in David Cameron’s Witney constituency.

MP Greg Mulholland calls for more equal duty system between cider and beer

04-Mar-2013

Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group, Greg Mulholland MP, has today written to chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander MP, calling on the Government to look to create a more equal duty system between beer and cider.

Greg Mulholland: gov't must make sure viable pubs remain as pubs

27-Feb-2013 By Gurjit Degun

The Government must take responsibility for changing planning rights for pubs and making sure viable pubs stay as pubs for the mainstay of the UK’s high streets.

Mulholland in House of Commons coat calamity

17-Dec-2012

Pub campaigning MP Greg Mulholland got himself into a spot of coat-related bother following a Parliamentary drinks reception last week, Snifter can shockingly reveal.

Beer Duty Debate: Greg Mulholland backs "progressive tax to help the British pub"

01-Nov-2012

All-Party Parliamentary Save The Pub Group chairman Greg Mulholland has slammed the beer duty escalator as “unfair and unjustifiable” and said the “message is clear” that it should be scrapped.

Greg Mulholland calls on coalition government to show its "pro-pub" credentials

28-Sep-2012

Local support for pubs and brewing is essential if the coalition is to be remembered as a “pro-pub government”, according to All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group chairman, Greg Mulholland MP.

IFBB rejects Mulholland calls to expel Young's from the organisation

10-May-2012 By Michelle Perrett

The Independent Family Brewers of Britain (IFBB) has rejected calls from Liberal Democrat MP Greg Mulholland to expel Young’s from the organisation.

MP Greg Mulholland slams October enforcement of new pub Industry Code as 'embarrassing'

08-May-2012 By Adam Pescod

Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group, Greg Mulholland MP, has slammed the announcement that the revised Industry Framework Code (IFC) governing tenant-pubco relations will not come into force until the end of October.

BISC: A round-up of the pubco-tenant debate

19-Jan-2012 By Michelle Perrett

The Government’s response to the BISC came under scrutiny in a Commons debate last week. Here are some of the MPs’ comments

BISC: MPs support more scrutiny of pubcos

12-Jan-2012 By PMA Team

MPs have approved a plan that compels the Government to set up an independent body to monitor the progress of ‘toughened’ self regulation in the pubco/tenant relationship.

British Pub Week: Mulholland urges MP support

28-Oct-2011

Pub campaigner Greg Mulholland MP has tabled a cross party Early Day Motion (EDM) celebrating British Pub Week 2011, which kicks off today.

Royal approval for Yorkshire town's pub club wedding initiative

25-Jul-2011 By Adam Pescod

A pub campaign group in a West Yorkshire town has been given the Royal seal of approval by the newly married Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

Otley pubs royal-wedding tribute

28-Apr-2011 By Michelle Perrett

Pubs in Otley are renaming themselves for the Royal Wedding on April 29 in honour of Kate Middleton's connections to the area.

Mulholland presses for shadow pubs minister

11-Apr-2011 By Lesley Foottit

Greg Mulholland has written to Labour leader Ed Miliband reiterating earlier requests for the appointment of a shadow pubs minister. The call came...

MP calls for pub community consultation

17-Feb-2011 By Gurjit Degun

Each time a pub closes and faces demolition or change of use there should be a community consultation, says MP Greg Mulholland.

MP calls for six-month moratorium on threatened pubs

16-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore

Communities should be given a six-month window to decide if they want to buy a threatened local pub, an MP has argued. During a Westminster Hall...

MPs to debate laws to protect threatened pubs

15-Feb-2011 By James Wilmore

Pressure on the government to change planning laws to protect threatened pubs is set to intensify, as MPs will debate the issue tomorrow. Greg...

Mulholland and Tuppen spat pub changes hands

08-Feb-2011 By Lesley Foottit

The pub at the centre of a spat between Greg Mulholland MP and Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen has changed hands again. A new licensee...

MPs question community 'right to buy' promise

19-Jan-2011 By James Wilmore

A coalition pledge to give communities the "right to buy" local assets, such as pubs, is being ignored, a senior Labour MP has claimed. Caroline...

Revamp for controversial Enterprise pub

06-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team

A pub at the centre of a spat between MP Greg Mulholland and Enterprise Inns is to get a refurbishment. The Black Horse Hotel in Otley, West...

MP: Enterprise pay increases insensitive

15-Dec-2010 By Ewan Turney

Enterprise Inns critic Greg Mulholland MP has slammed its bosses for putting "their own greed before the needs of their own tenants" after receiving...

Mulholland meets with minister to discuss beer tie

30-Nov-2010

Pub campaigning MP Greg Mulholland is to meet with the employment relations minister Edward Davey today (November 30) to discuss industry progress in...

Tuppen rejects Mulholland's view

04-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team

Enterprise Inns has rejected a claim by MP Greg Mulholland that it should sell the freehold of the Black Horse in Otley to give it a chance of a...

Off-trade must be tackled too in shake-up, minister told

27-Oct-2010 By James Wilmore

Supermarkets must be better regulated for the aims of the government's licensing shake-up to work, the minister in charge of the changes has been...

The background to the sector's spat of the year

07-Oct-2010 By Phil Dixon

Phil Dixon visits Otley in West Yorkshire to investigate the unholy row between Enterprise Inns and local MP Greg Mulholland.

Banishing the f-word from pubs — failure

07-Oct-2010 By The PMA Team

Tenant failure has been a widespread disease that now needs eradicating, says The PMA Team.

MP calls for Tuppen to resign over death

06-Oct-2010 By Ewan Turney

Greg Mulholland has called for Enterprise boss Ted Tuppen to resign after his company was fined for safety breaches that led to the death of a licensee.

Mulholland urges Cameron to appoint pubs minister

16-Aug-2010 By James Wilmore

MP Greg Mulholland has written to David Cameron urging the government to appoint a new pubs minister and help community venues. The previous...

Save Pub Group calls for Home Office meeting

29-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney

Save the Pub Group chair Greg Mulholland has called for a meeting with the Home Office over the proposed changes on licensing. The Lib Dem MP has...