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Quality and labelling rules for growing, packing, distributing, importing and selling fresh fruit and vegetables.

• Updated: 8 May 2024

Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services

• Plan for growth

  Once your business is established and you’re making a profit on the…

• Get extra funding

  Growing your business, whether through increased sales or improved…

• Increase sales to existing customers

  How you go about increasing sales depends on your circumstances and how…

• Attract new customers

  One way of finding new customers for your products and services is by…

• Improve your products and services

  If you’re looking to grow your business by improving your products and…

• Develop new products and services

  If you’re planning to develop new products and services, you should test…

• Hire and train staff

  As your business expands, you’ll need more capacity to produce or provide…

• Work with a mentor

  Business mentors can help you develop your ideas for growth by sharing…

What to do if you’re bringing your pet or pets to Great Britain: quarantine rules, documents you need, types of animal you can bring.

• Overview

  You must follow certain rules to bring your pet to Great Britain (England,…

• If you’re travelling from an EU country

  You must write a statement (called a ‘declaration’) to say that your pet:…

• If you’re travelling from outside the EU

  You must have an import licence to bring any pet animal that is not a dog,…

• Check if you need to follow extra rules

  Depending on the type of pet you’re bringing, you may have to follow extra…

• Endangered species

  You need to apply for a permit or certificate if you’re bringing a pet…

• Help and advice

  To check the exact rules for your pet, contact the Centre for…

Lays-offs and short-time working - pay, rights, temporary lay-off, redundancy, taking on extra work, claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, short-time regulations and payments

How to make debt deductions from an employee's pay because of an 'attachment of earnings order' (AEO) from a court. Includes information from the withdrawn A/E guidance.

How the death of your partner affects your benefits, tax and pension. What you can claim and who to tell about your change of circumstances.

Find out about help you can get moving from benefits to work - training, work trials, starting your own business, help with drug or alcohol problems, carer support

Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) - support your child can get at school and how to apply for an education, health and care (EHC) plan

How to register as a spring water producer, and the rules you must follow to produce and market spring water.

• Updated: 16 August 2022

Work out how much money you'll get when you retire and plan ahead - State Pension, Pension Credit, National Insurance