After struggling through Covid the industry now faces fewer customers, soaring prices and higher energy costs
According to Altus, 400 pubs in England and Wales closed last year and some 200 shut in the first half of 2022 as inflation started to eat into their profits. That brought the total number of pubs down to its lowest since Altus's records began in 2005.
"We need the government to take urgent steps to remove barriers to growth, help to tackle the cost crisis we're facing and support more people into work and training," she said. "As a sector we have just weathered the hardest two years on memory, and we now face the challenge of extreme rising costs," she added.
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