House Of Commons Business Innovation And Skills Committee The Retail Sector Volume I Hc 168 I
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House of Commons - Business, Innovation and Skills Committee: The Retail Sector: Volume I - HC 168-I
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
language: en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date: 2014-03-04
The Committee calls for a wholesale review that goes beyond the administration of business rates to examine whether retail taxes should be based on sales rather than the rateable value of a property; whether retail needs its own system of business taxation; and how frequently revaluations should take place. In the interim, the Committee calls for a six months business rates amnesty for businesses occupying empty properties. This would go further than the 50% reduction announced in the Autumn Statement and would encourage new businesses to the High Street. The Committee also recommends that in the interim the Government review whether business rates are more appropriately linked to CPI or RPI and calls for annual increases to be linked to a 12 month average of either RPI or CPI, with a cap at 2%. This would replace the current link to a monthly snapshot of RPI. The Government should provide information on how and how much of the money allocated to the Portas Pilots is being spent. This follows concerns that much of the money allocated to the pilots has not been spent. The Government is also urged to outline the results of its latest STEM skills analysis and outline the action it will take to tackle any skills shortages. The retail sector also needs to encourage more staff to be trained at Apprenticeship Level 3 and above, and consider developing language skills to enhance the international consumers' experience
House of Commons - Business, Innovation and Skills Committee: The Retail Sector: Volume II - HC 168-II
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
language: en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date: 2014-03-04
Additional written evidence is contained in volume 3, available on the Committee website at www.parliament.uk/bis
HC 249 - Business-University Collaboration
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Business, Innovation and Skills Committee
language: en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date: 2014
The Government must commit to a 3 per cent target of GDP of research and development (R&D) spending by 2020 to ensure the UK doesn't lag behind international competitors. The BIS Committee finds that more than 30 years of under-investment in R&D has left the UK trailing countries such as the USA, Germany and France in science and innovation spending, threatening the opportunities for economic growth offered by the research excellence of the UK's world class university system. The Committee found the Catapult network has played a valuable role in harnessing the commercial benefits of science and innovation research. The Committee calls on the Government to back the recommendations of the recent Hauser Catapult review and expand the Catapult Network from the seven current centres to 20 by 2020 and 30 by 2030 and increase funding to Innovate UK. The Government needs to do more to bring businesses and universities together to realise the benefits of the cutting-edge research taking place across the country. The Committee recommends that the Government establish a respected and impartial way to measure and evaluate the success of its initiatives to increase R&D activity, such as by reintroduction of the R&D scoreboard. These measures, alongside an ambitious long-term vision for the innovation system, should be built into the forthcoming Science and Innovation strategy.