The UK Warehousing Affiliation (UKWA) has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP, before next month’s Autumn Price range to highlight the significance of the sector to the nationwide financial system and most modern the compelling case for authorities to toughen warehousing & logistics businesses.
In response to its Protection Manifesto 2024, UKWA has focused on three key imperatives:
- Enterprise Charges – Addressing the ‘unfair and punitive’ basis for assessing substitute charges, which has keep warehousing at a critical downside.
- Rooftop photo voltaic strength – Requesting incentives/assist on funding in photo voltaic on warehouse infrastructure, whereas reforming regulation, energy distribution and native planning, to capitalise on the seemingly for the sector to double the UK’s most modern photo voltaic strength capacity.
- Abilities & Labour – Urging substitute apprenticeships to be modernised by including the recent UKWA Warehouse Manager CPC to the present L3 same outdated, and making sure levy funding would possibly perchance perchance well additionally be outdated at some level of all relevant coaching.
UKWA CEO Clare Bottle says, “Warehousing is with out doubt one of the critical quickest rising sectors in the UK and, blended with the broader logistics substitute, we make a contribution £165 billion Ghastly Value Added (GVA) to the UK financial system. Furthermore, attributable to seismic shifts in user ask and exponential growth 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 authorities to toughen warehousing and logistics businesses by fostering a regulatory and fiscal framework that acknowledges our sector as a facilitator of substitute and financial growth.
Whereas we welcome the authorities’s early commitment to reform the Nationwide Planning Protection Framework, there would possibly perchance be more to be performed to liberate our sector’s seemingly and, whereas recognising the must ‘lag the £22bn sunless gap’ in the authorities’s accounts, we predict about we maintain a ambitious case for funding and toughen in these three key areas.”
The recent authorities’s first Price range is scheduled for Wednesday 30 October 2024.
