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This #Budget2026 should have been the moment to help small businesses with the soaring costs holding them back, and the taxes restricting job creation.
Instead, they got nothing to ease sky-high energy bills and nothing to make hiring someone more affordable, while the increase in business rates relief excludes too many.
Read our full reaction 🔗 fsb.org.uk/media-centre/pres…
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💼 As the Chancellor prepares to deliver his #Budget2026, FSB National Chair @tinamckenz tells @TVNaga01 on @bbc5live why small businesses need more support 👇
⏰ The Chancellor is due to deliver the #AutumnBudget from 12:30pm.
✅ Stay tuned for FSB's full reaction later this afternoon and in the coming days.
Watch the #Budget2026 live here 🔗
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⏰ If you're a small business owner, you know that the true impact of late payments goes well beyond the £11 billion it costs small firms each year - harming cashflow, growth, and the economy as a whole.
✅ But the Commercial Payments Bill, which FSB campaigned for, is huge step towards stamping out late payments for good. Small Business Minister @SonnyLeong53 and @deirdrecostigan told us what the Bill will mean for small firms.
💼 Ahead of tomorrow's #Budget2026, FSB's David Hale tells @carolewalkercw on @TimesRadio how the Chancellor can back small businesses and help to encourage growth across the whole of the UK 🎙️
This document will be a game-changer for any small business which has experienced late payments at the hands of a big business.
⏰ It's the Commercial Payments Bill, aimed at outlawing these poor payment practices. It's been voted for by the @UKHouseofLords, and it's now going to MPs for their approval.
✅ To mark this halfway point in the law-making process, the Bill was presented at our Westminster office by Small Business Minister Lord Leong - who steered the legislation through the House of Lords - and Labour MP Deirdre Costigan, who will be one of the Bill's champions in the @HouseofCommons.
ALT From left: Deirdre Costigan, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds; Craig Beaumont, FSB Executive Director, and Lord Leong, Small Business Minister at FSB's Westminster office.
ALT From left: Deirdre Costigan, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds and Lord Leong, Small Business Minister at FSB's Westminster office.
ALT The Commercial Payments Bill.
This is the time to win back the trust of small business owners and end the anti-entrepreneur era, FSB’s @craigie_b tells @SkyNews ahead of Wednesday’s #Budget2026.
Our weekly round up of the top small business news 🖥️
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Our National Chair @tinamckenz has launched today's report by the Small Business Regulatory Taskforce, alongside Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, and Small Business Minister Lord Leong.
14 out of the 15 red-tape-cutting measures put forward by the taskforce - which was co-chaired by Tina - have been agreed to by the government, including a reversal of plans by Companies House to force even the smallest businesses to file full profit-and-loss accounts.
ALT Photograph of Andy Burnham and Tina McKenzie with a copy of the Small Business Regulatory Report. They are flanked in the picture by Jonathan Reynolds and Lord Leong.
"Very few people start a business because they are passionate about regulatory compliance."
📻Speaking to @LBCNews, FSB Policy Director Paul Wilson explains why today’s Small Business Regulatory Taskforce Report is an important first step towards a regulatory system which is far more aware of small businesses' needs.
📄The report contains a raft of recommendations to make red tape less of a burden to small firms. Listen here 👇
FSB members: Do you have experience of international trade and want to help shape the policies that affect small businesses? 🌍
We’re looking for an FSB member to join our UK Policy Committee (UKPC) and bring their experience of buying or selling internationally, or supporting businesses that do.
It’s an opportunity to help make sure the realities facing small businesses are reflected in FSB’s thinking and policy work on international trade.
You’ll have the opportunity to shape FSB’s campaigning and help make the case for an environment where more small businesses can better trade internationally.
This is a volunteer role that can be undertaken around running your own business; there's a commitment to attend quarterly FSB UKPC meetings and meet with FSB staff monthly.
Interested?
📨 Email [email protected] by 13 November to find out more or express your interest.
ALT Have experience in international trade? Help us shape small business policy.
We're very pleased to see the Commercial Payments Bill successfully made it through the House of Lords this week - a huge step towards stamping out late payments for good after more than 20 years of FSB campaigning.
⏰ Late payments cost small firms £11 billion every year, but they aren't just bad for small businesses and the self employed; they're bad for growth, local communities, employees, and the economy as a whole.
✅ The Bill will now move to the House of Commons for the next stage of Parliamentary scrutiny.
🇪🇺 We had a productive meeting with the new EU Ambassador to the UK, Jukka Salovaara, discussing some of the key issues for small international traders, including how to streamline UK-EU trade and the importance of improving economic cooperation to strengthen security.
🌱 FSB's @tinamckenz raised the importance of the next few weeks for small businesses - with the UK-EU SPS agreement reaching its final stages of negotiation, and the UK-EU Ministerial summit now less than a month away.
ALT FSB's Tina McKenzie (right) meets the new EU Ambassador to the UK, Jukka Salovaara.
💼 Increasing Small Business Rate Relief to £25,000.
💼 Uprating the Employment Allowance to help with employment costs.
💼 Removing 75% of Renewables Obligation costs from small business energy bills.
FSB's David Hale told the @HoCcommitteesUK Treasury Committee about measures we're calling for in the #Budget2026 to help small businesses to grow.
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@heraldscotland has launched a fantastic campaign today calling on the Scottish Government to "Reset the Rates" and lift some of the pressure on many of the country's small businesses. Great impactful work by @ScottWWright @ianmcconnellHT @SalmondSalmond and all the Herald team
📆 There's just over a week left until the Autumn #Budget2026, and FSB's @tinamckenz has been speaking to the Chancellor about the measures small businesses want to see.
💼 We're campaigning for Small Business Rate Relief to be increased to £25,000 to help the smallest firms to grow, and with rising employment costs putting many small firms off hiring, we're calling for the Employment Allowance to be uprated to help employers take on more, particularly younger, staff members 👇
ALT FSB's Tina McKenzie standing outside 11 Downing Street.
⏳ FINAL CALL: What, if anything, is holding back investment in your business? have your say in our risk and investment survey before it closes tomorrow 💷
This is a vital part of our campaigning, and helps us call for the measures that small firms need to grow.
Plus, there's the chance to win £200 🔗 about.fsbbigvoice.uk/RiskTak…
“It’s the small businesses that will help us get growth,” FSB’s @tinamckenz tells BBC’s Any Questions? tonight, as she calls for action on business rates in the upcoming Budget.