the business secretary alok sharma has outlined measures which he says whill help businesses ‘bouncetroduce measures to improve the insolvency system which provides the legal options for companies running into major difficulties. 0ur overriding objective is to help uk companies which need to undergo a financial rescue or restructuring process to keep trading. these measures will give those firms extra time and space to weather the storm and be ready when the crisis ends, whilst ensuring that creditors get the best return possible in the circumstances. the changes to the insolvency regime will include new rules to make sure companies undergoing restructuring can continue to get hold of supplies and raw materials. our business correspondent katie prescott has more on the announcements by alok sharma. the first is around protective equipment. so, things like facemasks for front line nhs staff and hand sanitiser, products that we know have been in really short supply. in the announcement today is that the red tape around producing these products is going to be relaxed in order that busin

this is the whill autonomous wheelchair.o some very clever technology built into the front here, this has the potential, at least, to transport passengers from security all the way over there, perhaps via duty—free, all the way to one of the gates, like the one behind me. it has two wide—angle cameras on the front, cameras on the back, as well as lidar and infrared sensors. they combine to make sure the chair doesn't collide with anything. prior to the chair being let loose on passengers, it has to spend several days plotting routes around the terminal building — in this case, jfk's terminal seven — all the time building up an internal map which it uses to locate itself. i arrived to see the start of a two—day live trial. the process starts from the site survey, so we understand the airport environment, for example, how do customers line up for boarding, how crowded the terminal is going to be, what's the peak hour and non—peak hour and things like that. and eventually, we have to talk with operationals — how do we actually

the uk business secretary alok sharma outlined some measures, which he says whill help businesses ‘bounceuce measures to improve the insolvency system, which provides the legal options for companies running into major difficulties. 0ur overriding objective is to help uk companies which need to undergo a financial rescue or restructuring process to keep trading. these measures will give those firms extra time and space to weather the storm and be ready when the crisis ends. whilst ensuring that creditors get the best return possible in the circumstances. the changes to the insolvency regime will include new rules to make sure companies undergoing restructuring can continue to get hold of supplies and raw materials. and, there will be a temporary suspension of wrongful trading provisions for company directors, to remove the threat of personal liability during the pandemic. this provision will have retrospective effect from the 1st of march. however, to be clear, all of the other checks and balances that help to ensure directors fulfil their duties properly will remain in force. we will brin