The UK Warehousing Affiliation (UKWA) has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, before subsequent month’s Autumn Finances to highlight the significance of the sector to the nationwide economy and recent the compelling case for authorities to make stronger warehousing & logistics agencies.
Consistent with its Coverage Manifesto 2024, UKWA has centered on three key imperatives:
- Commercial Charges – Addressing the ‘unfair and punitive’ basis for assessing industry charges, which has build warehousing at a big downside.
- Rooftop solar energy – Inquiring for incentives/reduction on funding in solar on warehouse infrastructure, while reforming legislation, energy distribution and native planning, to capitalise on the chance of the sector to double the UK’s recent solar energy capability.
- Abilities & Labour – Urging industry apprenticeships to be modernised by adding the recent UKWA Warehouse Supervisor CPC to the current L3 no longer unique, and guaranteeing levy funding may per chance even be feeble across all relevant practising.
UKWA CEO Clare Bottle says, “Warehousing is one in all the quickest rising sectors in the UK and, blended with the broader logistics industry, we contribute £165 billion Detestable Rate Added (GVA) to the UK economy. Moreover, ensuing from seismic shifts in consumer quiz and exponential yell in ecommerce, the UK’s warehousing footprint has grown by over 50 per cent in the the leisure 10 years.
Which ability that truth there is a compelling case for the recent authorities to make stronger warehousing and logistics agencies by fostering a regulatory and financial framework that acknowledges our sector as a facilitator of trade and financial yell.
Whereas we welcome the authorities’s early commitment to reform the Nationwide Planning Coverage Framework, there is more to be achieved to free up our sector’s ability and, while recognising the want to ‘high-tail the £22bn dim hole’ in the authorities’s accounts, we imagine we bear now a solid case for funding and make stronger in these three key areas.”
The recent authorities’s first Finances is scheduled for Wednesday 30 October 2024.
