Greg Mulholland Mp

Government supports amendment that protects pubs from change of use

24-Mar-2017 By Georgina Townshend

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has confirmed the Government will support an amendment that will make it harder for big chains and developers to buy out individual pubs.

Make Some Noise: Greg Mulholland MP backs campaign

14-Oct-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Save the Pub Group chair and MP Greg Mulholland has backed the Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s (PMA) Make Some Noise campaign, claiming that the current situation “makes life more difficult for hard-pressed publicans”.

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.

Campaigners fear Treasury is concealing statutory code lobbying after FOI cover-up

13-Mar-2014 By Ellie Bothwell

Anti-pubco campaigners fear the Treasury is concealing the extent of pubco lobbying activities, after it turned down a Freedom of Information (FOI) request for details of correspondence and meetings relating to the Government’s consultation on a statutory...

Punch Taverns defends drafting letters for tenants to send to MPs

04-Jul-2013 By John Harrington & Gurjit Degun

Punch Taverns has defended its decision to help draft some of the letters sent by tenants to the Government in support of the pub company for the consultation into plans for a statutory code for pub companies.

MP Greg Mulholland claims pub Industry Framework Code progress "farcical"

21-Sep-2012 By Michelle Perrett

Chair of the Parliamentary Save the Pub Group, Greg Mulholland MP, has written to the secretary of state for Business Innovation and skills, Vince Cable, criticising the lack of progress over the Industry Framework Code (IFC).

Enterprise defends tenants’ treatment

02-Sep-2011

Enterprise Inns has defended its treatment of tenants after new figures show 17 of the 30 “serious” licensee complaints against pubcos to a group of MPs were from Enterprise tenants.

Mulholland: tenant survey 'misses the point'

19-May-2011 By Michelle Perrett

Save the Pub Group chair, claims the new survey on pubco codes of practice does not deal with the "fundamental issue" of tenant profitability.

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...

Can Localism Bill protect the local?

26-Jan-2011 By Matt Eley Matt

Calls for legislation to help communities save pubs should be included in the Localism Bill, according to Greg Mulholland MP. The chairman of the...

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...

Minister hears more on pubco power

12-Feb-2010 By Matt Eley Matt

Members of the All Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group have met with consumer minister Kevin Brennan MP to discuss the power of the pub companies....

Mulholland anger as beer tax concession is rejected

11-Jan-2010

Save the Pub Group chairman Greg Mulholland MP has accused the government of heaping "misery on the industry" after refusing to fight for differing...

OFT offers to meet Mulholland

06-Nov-2009 By Ewan Turney

The OFT has offered to meet with Greg Mulholland MP to fully explain its decision to give the pubco model a clean bill of health.

MP calls on Cameron to address the tie

24-Feb-2009

Publican columnist Greg Mulholland MP has urged David Cameron to address the power of the pubcos in his party's new campaignIn a move that has been...