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1. • Local Shops Welcome Focus on Business Certainty in Minimum Wage Review

   • 09/06/2011
   • The next round of consultation on the minimum wage, which will determine the recommended rate for 2013 will also have to consider ways to deliver greater certainty for business, Ministers have said.

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2. • Influential Report Calls for New Approach to Out of Court Penalties

   • 09/06/2011
   • Out of Court Penalties such as cautions, on the spot fines and community payback initiatives are inconsistently and often inappropriately applied says Her Majesty’s Inspector of constabulary in a report out today (9th June).

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3. • ACS Welcomes Lords Call for Changes to the Localism Bill

   • 08/06/2011
   • Peers in the House of Lords have supported calls from ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) to put retail diversity and sustainable development on the face of the Localism Bill.

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4. • Lords Must Act Now to Tesco Proof Localism Bill

   • 07/06/2011
   • ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores) has called on Peers to stand up for high streets during the debate of the Localism Bill in the House of Lords today.

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5. • Local Shops Urge No More Delay in Grocery Code Adjudicator Implementation

   • 24/05/2011
   • The Association of Convenience Stores has welcomed the publication of the Groceries Code Adjudicator Draft Bill and have urged Government to move swiftly in taking the Bill through Parliament.

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6. • Government Commitment to High Streets Must be More than Kind Words

   • 17/05/2011
   • Local shops have welcomed the Government review of the high street and the appointment of Mary Portas as an independent advisor to lead the project.

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7. • Retailers and Environmental Groups Urge MPs to Stand Up For the High Street

   • 16/05/2011
   • Retailers and rural campaigners have joined forces to champion British high streets. On Tuesday MPs will discuss critical amendments to the Government’s Localism Bill.

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8. • Retailers Urged to Work with Service Category During Crucial Changes

   • 13/05/2011
   • Local shopkeepers from across the country had the opportunity to feed in their views on Post Offices, bill payments, mobile top-ups and other services to key Government and industry figures at the ACS Services Forum yesterday.

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9. • Flawed Community Buy Rules a Threat to Local Shops

   • 03/05/2011
   • Government must make fundamental changes to its ‘Community Right to Buy’ proposals or risk jeopardising the interests of thousands of retail business owners, argues ACS (the Association of Convenience Stores).

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10. • ACS Calls for Cross Government Tobacco Control Strategy

    • 27/04/2011
    • ACS has welcomed the renewed ‘Tackling Tobacco Smuggling’ Strategy published today, but has called for a more integrated approach to Government tobacco control policy.

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11. • ACS Warns Government Not to Harm Challenge 25

    • 26/04/2011
    • ACS has urged the Government not to allow new equalities rules to undermine age verification policies such as Challenge 25.

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12. • Consumer Confidence Hit By High Street Decline

    • 21/04/2011
    • ACS Calls for Strong Town Centre Planning Rules The majority of Britons feel ?pessimistic? about the UK?s economic future when they walk through their local high street, new research suggests.

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13. • ACS Calls for more Action on Illegal Tobacco Trade in Northern Ireland

    • 20/04/2011
    • The Northern Ireland Assembly must put tackling the illicit trade as its top priority in the Tackling Tobacco Strategy says ACS. In a detailed response to the consultation ACS sets out four policy proposals changes that would make a difference.

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14. • Local Shops Back Red Tape Challenge

    • 07/04/2011
    • The Secretary of State for Business has launched a major and innovative new public consultation that gives local shops the opportunity to explain which regulations that cause them a burden should go.

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15. • ACS: Minimum Wage Increase Will Cost Jobs and Damage the Recovery

    • 07/04/2011
    • ACS has warned that the decision to increase the minimum wage for adults by 2.5% to £6.08 will threaten job creation in the retail sector.

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