The UK Warehousing Affiliation (UKWA) has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, ahead of next month’s Autumn Funds to specialise in the importance of the sphere to the nationwide economy and unusual the compelling case for govt to support warehousing & logistics companies.
In accordance with its Policy Manifesto 2024, UKWA has centered on three key imperatives:
- Business Charges – Addressing the ‘unfair and punitive’ basis for assessing change charges, which has attach warehousing at a predominant downside.
- Rooftop photograph voltaic energy – Soliciting for incentives/support on funding in photograph voltaic on warehouse infrastructure, while reforming law, vitality distribution and native planning, to capitalise on the ability for the sphere to double the UK’s unusual photograph voltaic energy capability.
- Skills & Labour – Urging change apprenticeships to be modernised by adding the recent UKWA Warehouse Supervisor CPC to the unusual L3 identical old, and guaranteeing levy funding can even be feeble across all relevant practicing.
UKWA CEO Clare Bottle says, “Warehousing is thought to be one of many quickest rising sectors in the UK and, blended with the wider logistics change, we make a contribution £165 billion Sinister Worth Added (GVA) to the UK economy. Furthermore, attributable to seismic shifts in person ask and exponential whisper in ecommerce, the UK’s warehousing footprint has grown by over 50 per cent in the final 10 years.
Attributable to this truth there is a compelling case for the recent govt to support warehousing and logistics companies by fostering a regulatory and financial framework that acknowledges our sector as a facilitator of change and economic whisper.
Whereas we welcome the govt.’s early commitment to reform the National Planning Policy Framework, there is more to be accomplished to unlock our sector’s doable and, while recognising the need to ‘dart the £22bn gloomy gap’ in the govt.’s accounts, we issue now we contain a stable case for funding and support in these three key areas.”
The recent govt’s first Funds is scheduled for Wednesday 30 October 2024.
