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Most businesses have cover and contingency plans in place for events such as fires and the impact of crime. Cyber-crime in particular has grown from a minor worry affecting only certain types of businesses to a genuine threat to businesses of all shapes and sizes.

In the run up to the spring Budget a number of lobby groups and trade associations were calling on Chancellor George Osborne to introduce a range of measures to help small and medium businesses. So with the Budget speech delivered, how have SMEs in the UK fared?

Industry body the National Skills Academy for Food and Drink has warned that the food and drink sector is facing a serious image crisis, with young people ignoring the sector when it came to choosing careers.

More than a third of British business owners in the UK said they expect their companies to be the victims of cyber-crime over the next 12 months, according to a new report.

The Government is being urged to act on the thorny issue of business rates. Five of the UK’s biggest industry lobby groups in the British Retail Consortium, British Council of Shopping Centres, Association of Convenience Stores, Federation of Small Businesses, and British Property Federation have joined forces to write to the Treasury. The group says that, more than two years after the Government said it would review the tax, it is now time to act.