Business Rates: Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Debate
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Lord Evans of Rainow
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Business Rates: Retail, Hospitality and Leisure
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Lord Livermore (Lab)
I do not think I heard a question at the end there. As I have said, we are working with the sector to ensure that it gets the support it needs.
Lord Evans of Rainow (Con)
My Lords, given my noble friend’s question, and given the importance of hospitality for employment—and the reference in a previous question to the number of young people who are unemployed—why is hospitality not included in the Government’s industrial strategy?
Lord Livermore (Lab)
That is an excellent question. Of course, we have separate strategies for the retail, hospitality and leisure sector. With the industrial strategy, we are trying to do something different from what that strategy is doing. Just because a sector is not in the industrial strategy, that does not mean we do not value that sector extremely highly and do all we can for it.