Covid-19: Furloughed Space Grant Scheme

Baroness Kennedy of Cradley Excerpts

Monday 15th June 2020 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Penn]

The Government are very cognisant of the impact of the two-metre rule on businesses and it is kept under constant review. The biggest support we can give businesses is to bring transmission of the virus down. That will allow us to take steps forward out of lockdown, as we have been able to do with the opening of non-essential retail outlets today.

[Baroness Kennedy of Cradley (Lab) [V]]

My Lords, with consumer confidence at its lowest for a decade, and with local convenience shops, which have been a lifeline for many during the lockdown, relying on the extra hours of trading time on a Sunday evening to keep them viable, what is the economic case needed for the Government to consider a change to the Sunday trading laws?