The Apprenticeship Levy isn’t working
Apprenticeship numbers have been declining since the Government introduced the Apprenticeship Levy in April 2017.
Read moreBank gets Cumbria Chamber’s message on interest rates
Cumbria Chamber of Commerce has urged the Bank of England to think twice before raising interest rates. The Chamber hosted a lunch in Kendal on…
Can we save the high street?
The building that houses Carlisle’s House of Fraser department store changed hands for £13.3m as recently as 2013. The buyers – investors operating through companies…
How do we shrink Cumbria’s gender pay gap?
This week, to coincide with International Women’s Day, the accountancy firm PwC published its annual Women in Work survey. The findings confirm that women’s pay…
How to solve Cumbria’s housing and labour shortages
It would be a shock to most policy makers in London to learn that the two areas of the UK with the lowest unemployment are…
Migration and Brexit: What Cumbrian businesses really think
Some Lake District hoteliers fear they could be forced to close if stringent restrictions on migrant labour are imposed after Brexit. That sounds alarmist –…