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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Food: Wholesale Trade (3 June 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will extend the application of business rates relief to food and drink wholesalers.

Asked by:
Bob Blackman (Conservative)

Answer

The Government has provided enhanced support to the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors through business rates relief given the direct and acute impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on those sectors. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has published guidance for local authorities on eligible properties.

A range of further measures to support all businesses, including those not eligible for the business rates holiday, such as wholesalers, has also been made available. For example, the Government has launched the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to help firms keep people in employment, and the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme.


Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
11 June 2020

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