Business and Other Briefings

WAG:  A new £75m Welsh Government scheme that will create 12,000 new job opportunities over the next 3 years was launched by the First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones, last week.  Jobs Growth Wales will create new job opportunities for unemployed young people, aged 16-24, for a 6-month period and provide business with the chance to expand and make those posts permanent.
Press release & links

OFT:  A searchable register of the businesses supervised by the OFT under the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 has been made public for the first time recently. 

Under the Regulations, estate agents and some businesses engaging in consumer credit lending are supervised by the OFT to reduce the risk of them being used for money laundering or terrorist financing purposes.  These businesses need to register with the OFT. 
Press release & links

ScotGov:  Scottish companies are being reminded that they can spread the cost of the inflationary increase in business rates through the Scottish Government’s rate deferral scheme for 2012-13.  The scheme gives companies the flexibility to defer the uplift in their 2012-13 business rates bills over 3 years.

Press release & links

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