The UK Warehousing Association (UKWA) has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, earlier than next month’s Autumn Funds to concentrate on the significance of the field to the nationwide economy and up-to-the-minute the compelling case for govt to give a boost to warehousing & logistics agencies.
Based on its Coverage Manifesto 2024, UKWA has centered on three key imperatives:
- Replace Charges – Addressing the ‘unfair and punitive’ basis for assessing industrial rates, which has place warehousing at a most essential disadvantage.
- Rooftop photograph voltaic energy – Inquiring for incentives/relief on investment in photograph voltaic on warehouse infrastructure, whereas reforming legislation, energy distribution and native planning, to capitalise on the aptitude for the field to double the UK’s recent photograph voltaic energy capability.
- Expertise & Labour – Urging industry apprenticeships to be modernised by adding the brand new UKWA Warehouse Supervisor CPC to the unusual L3 not new, and guaranteeing levy funding might per chance even be frail across all relevant practising.
UKWA CEO Clare Bottle says, “Warehousing is one in every of the fastest increasing sectors in the UK and, mixed with the wider logistics industry, we contribute £165 billion Downhearted Charge Added (GVA) to the UK economy. Furthermore, as a result of seismic shifts in particular person take a look at and exponential train in ecommerce, the UK’s warehousing footprint has grown by over 50 per cent in the closing 10 years.
Therefore there might be a compelling case for the brand new govt to give a boost to warehousing and logistics agencies by fostering a regulatory and financial framework that acknowledges our sector as a facilitator of alternate and economic train.
While we welcome the government’s early commitment to reform the Nationwide Planning Coverage Framework, there might be more to be accomplished to unlock our sector’s seemingly and, even as recognising the must ‘plod the £22bn shaded hole’ in the government’s accounts, we imagine we have a solid case for investment and give a boost to in these three key areas.”
The new govt’s first Funds is scheduled for Wednesday 30 October 2024.
