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Limit Quarantine Scope To Minimise Economic Damage
Limit Quarantine Scope To Minimise Economic Damage
Quarantining travellers will hold back the UK’s economic recovery. Key workers across our sectors must be provided with a route to secure exemptions and allow travel essential to our economic recovery. The 14-day quarantine should be a time-limited measure that can be removed as soon as the evidence supports doing so.
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Rolls-Royce announces reorganisation
Rolls-Royce announces reorganisation
The crisis is having a major impact on aerospace companies who provide high value, long-term jobs in all regions and nations of the UK, putting thousands more jobs at risk now and in the months ahead. To minimise the impact on jobs and manufacturing capability in the long-term we need urgent action by Government.
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UK Government Publishes Draft Brexit Agreements
UK Government Publishes Draft Brexit Agreements
A pragmatic approach is needed from both the UK and the EU to reach agreement on critical issues in the short time remaining for negotiations. The urgency of achieving a comprehensive deal with the EU has never been clearer.
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Manufacturing trade associations concerned by 14 day quarantine
Manufacturing trade associations concerned by 14 day quarantine
Today the Financial Times reports concerns raised by ADS and trade associations covering the automotive, chemicals, food and farming, and pharmaceutials sectors about UK plans for 14-day quarantine of international travellers. ADS has written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps to raise our concerns about the Government's proposal, which will risk jobs in the aviation and aerospace industries, and across the economy.
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Government publishes recovery strategy
Government publishes recovery strategy
Reacting to today's publication of the UK Government’s COVID-19 Recovery Strategy, ADS said tens of thousands of jobs are at risk in the UK’s aerospace, defence, security and space industries without coordinated action to support economic recovery.
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ADS Statement on 14 Day Quarantine
ADS Statement on 14 Day Quarantine
The Government’s quarantine proposal for international air passengers is a disappointing step that will put jobs at risk in the aviation and aerospace industries, and in the wider economy. Building public confidence to enable the resumption of flying is a critical starting point for recovery in our industry and sectors across the economy that rely on global movement of people and goods.
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COVID-19 Holds Back Q1 Aircraft Deliveries As Industry Revises Forecasts
COVID-19 Holds Back Q1 Aircraft Deliveries As Industry Revises Forecasts
COVID-19 impact on aerospace manufacturers sees Q1 2020 record lowest January to March deliveries as customers defer and delay.
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ADS Welcomes Extension to Furlough Scheme
ADS Welcomes Extension to Furlough Scheme
Commenting on the Chancellor’s decision to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to the end of June, ADS Chief Executive Paul Everitt said: “Extending this important scheme allows employers to continue furloughing arrangements without having to confront difficult decisions on future staffing levels until after the next review of lockdown measures."
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Airbus publishes production update
Airbus publishes production update
Responding to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, which has prompted customer requests to defer deliveries and other difficulties as a consequence of industry disruption, Airbus has published revised production rates.
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Business Secretary writes open letter to manufacturers
Business Secretary writes open letter to manufacturers
In an open letter published on Gov.uk, the Business Secretary said: "Manufacturing is a critical part of our economy and I would like to be clear that there is no restriction on manufacturing continuing under the current rules. Guidelines from Public Health England provide best practice advice on how this can be done safely."
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Chancellor Makes Changes to Business Interruption Loan Scheme
Chancellor Makes Changes to Business Interruption Loan Scheme
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has today announced changes to the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme. ADS has requested improvements to the scheme to make it more accessible for a larger number of businesses.
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Aircraft Order Backlog Offers Long-Term Reassurance in Challenging 2020
Aircraft Order Backlog Offers Long-Term Reassurance in Challenging 2020
Aircraft orders in first two months of 2020 the best for the last six years, with 314 orders placed, pushing overall backlog of 14,094.
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ADS Welcomes the Announcement of Ventilator Consortium
ADS Welcomes the Announcement of Ventilator Consortium
Today it was announced that the UK’s aerospace, automotive and medical sectors have come together to produce 10,000 medical ventilators.
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Government Guidance Confirms Manufacturing Workers Can Go To Work
Government Guidance Confirms Manufacturing Workers Can Go To Work
ADS and Unite welcomed updated Government guidance confirming that manufacturing workers can continue travelling to work, and employers should ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place in workplaces to protect them.
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Manufacturing workers able to continue
Manufacturing workers able to continue
Workers in industries including manufacturing and construction will be able to continue going to work through the period of restrictions on movement announced by the Prime Minister on Monday. Following new rules coming into force to restrict social contact in the UK for three weeks, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) clarified the guidance for industries where home-working arrangements is not possible for all activities.
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