This week Enterprise Inns chief executive Ted Tuppen said his company would pay £100,000 or more to fund a body to represent licensees, to redress the imbalance of power between pubcos and tenants.

Tuppen said Payne, Federation of Licensed VIctuallers Associations chief executive, would be right kind of person to set it up.

 

Payne said today: “I want to make it clear that I won’t be looking to lead a new organisation. Ten years ago perhaps, but I retire on 31 December [from being FLVA chief] and from then on for 12 months I will do some Parliamentary work for the FLVA as and when required.”

 

He said he’d offer his help to a new group “on the clear understanding that I wouldn’t be involved in the running of it”.

 

Tuppen suggested one idea may be to impose a levy across all tenanted companies, according to the size of their estates, to fund the new body.

 

Story By: John Harrington (Morning Advertiser)