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Guidance on food labelling including best before and use-by dates, vegan labels and allergen labelling.

• Overview

  You need to understand the information on food labels so you can work out…

• Best before and use-by dates

  Most prepacked foods must show either a use‑by date or a best before date.…

• Allergen labelling

  There are 14 allergens which food businesses must tell you about if…

• Vegan food labelling

  There is no legal definition of vegan food in UK law, but businesses must…

Guidance on late night refreshment licensing including new powers permitting licensing authorities to exempt certain suppliers.

• Updated: 1 October 2015

Late commercial payments - interest and debt recovery costs you can charge businesses for late payments

• When a payment becomes late

  You can claim interest and debt recovery costs if another business is late…

• Interest on late commercial payments

  The interest you can charge if another business is late paying for goods…

• Claim debt recovery costs on late payments

  You can also charge a business a fixed sum for the cost of recovering a…

You can appeal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) if you appealed or were taken to an employment tribunal and you think there was a legal problem with the case

You must tell DVLA if you have an eating disorder and it affects your ability to drive safely - download the correct form to let them know

Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Andrew Burns, Deputy Judge of the High Court on 16 June 2026.

• Updated: 16 June 2026

• Updated: 22 August 2025

• Updated: 27 January 2023

You need a late hours catering licence if you want to sell food or drinks between 11pm and 5am in Scotland

• Updated: 19 July 2023

• Updated: 10 September 2025