Covid-19 Update Debate
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Peter Aldous
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Covid-19 Update
Peter Aldous Excerpts(4 years, 8 months ago)
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Peter Aldous (Waveney) (Con)
I commend my right hon. Friend for the sterling work he is doing. Will he provide some clarification on the definition of essential retail? The general store that purchases a freezer and says that it is a food store quite clearly is not, but the garden centre that incorporates a farm shop that may serve a local community might well be.
Matt Hancock
These things will inevitably end up being a judgment at the boundary, but if there are two types of shop in one organisation, we will sometimes require some parts of it to close. If there is a café in a shop that sells essential supplies, the café must close but the essential-supplies part can stay open.