Seaside Resorts Debate
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Baroness Fookes
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Seaside Resorts
Baroness Fookes Excerpts(4 years, 5 months ago)
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Baroness Barran
I think that I mentioned earlier that we are looking at a range of regulatory easements to facilitate the delivery of different services and extend the season.
Baroness Fookes (Con) [V]
I live in the seaside resort of Hastings and St Leonards—a borough that relies quite heavily on an influx of students coming to language schools. Unfortunately, language schools are not eligible for the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant fund. Do the Government have any other ways of helping them before they all disappear? Perhaps help could be made available through the Coastal Communities Fund, mentioned by my noble friend.
Baroness Barran
I will check on the specifics of language schools, but I assume that they are eligible for some of the wider cross-economy measures that the Chancellor announced, including, in particular, the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. However, if there are additional points, I will be happy to write to my noble friend.