Self-employment Income Support Scheme Debate
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Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill
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Self-employment Income Support Scheme
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Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill (Lab)
Many freelance journalists are ineligible for the government schemes and the requirements exclude those in their first year of being self-employed. Does the Minister agree that it is unfair to penalise those just starting out in their careers or forced into self-employment through redundancy and casualisation?
Lord Callanan
Of course, we want to help as many people as possible under these schemes, and we keep them constantly under review. All these various schemes have been implemented as quickly as possible, so we will certainly reflect closely on what the noble Baroness has said.