Arcadia and Debenhams: Business Support and Job Retention Debate
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Aaron Bell
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Arcadia and Debenhams: Business Support and Job Retention
Aaron Bell Excerpts(3 years, 11 months ago)
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Paul Scully
In terms of shopping centres it is really important that we get the balance right between landlords and tenants. The moratorium helps tenants but clearly does not help landlords, so we have to get the balance right. We will work with the retail sector to try to achieve that balance in the weeks and months to come.
Aaron Bell (Newcastle-under-Lyme) (Con)
The Dorothy Perkins in Newcastle-under-Lyme was already closed earlier during the pandemic, and we have also lost major tenants such as Laura Ashley and Edinburgh Woollen Mill during this pandemic, so I welcome what we are doing with the future high streets fund. We have a bid in with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Can the Minister confirm that it will be accelerated? We need to hear about that bid as soon as we can so we can get our towns fund bid in as well.