{"id":4096,"date":"2024-12-06T14:52:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4096"},"modified":"2024-12-12T14:58:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T14:58:25","slug":"sir-john-whittingdale-mp-visits-straight-edge-manufacturing-in-burnham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=4096","title":{"rendered":"Sir John Whittingdale MP visits Straight Edge Manufacturing in Burnham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, visits Straight Edge Manufacturing Ltd in Burnham Business Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Straight-Edge Manufacturing Ltd is one of the last UK manufacturers of Professional Musical Equipment, making hand built guitar amplifiers and speaker cabinets along with PA systems for a number of well-known brands. They employ around 30 people but are faced with a substantial increase in costs as a result of the increase in Employer\u2019s National Insurance Contributions in the Budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir John said: \u201cStraight-Edge is a successful small business which is succeeding in a highly competitive in market. However, profit margins are very tight and the increase in NICs in the Budget is a real kick in the teeth. Like for so many other firms, the consequence will be lower wage rises and or fewer jobs and I hope that even at this late stag, the Chancellor will think again\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir John is pictured with Ian Wilson, Founder and CEO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sir John Whittingdale, MP for Maldon, visits Straight Edge Manufacturing Ltd in Burnham Business Park. Straight-Edge Manufacturing Ltd is one of the last UK manufacturers of Professional Musical Equipment, making hand built guitar amplifiers and speaker cabinets along with PA systems for a number of well-known brands. They employ around 30 people but are faced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4098,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions\/4098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}