Covid-19: Road Map Debate

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Department: Cabinet Office

Covid-19: Road Map

Ruth Cadbury Excerpts
Monday 22nd February 2021

(3 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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The tourism sector is absolutely vital for our country and the faster that we can get it open, the better, but the best way to open it up fastest is to have a road map from which we do not deviate and on which we are not forced to go backwards. That is what we are setting out today and I am glad that we have my hon. Friend’s support.

Ruth Cadbury Portrait Ruth Cadbury (Brentford and Isleworth) (Lab) [V]
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The Prime Minister has today acknowledged the importance of holidays abroad but also that strict quarantine is essential to address the global transmission of covid. The aviation sector has estimated that, at best, aviation will return in the UK to only a third of 2019 levels this year and that full recovery could take five years, so when will the Government release their delayed aviation recovery plan, and what additional support will they provide for communities such as mine and the Prime Minister’s, who are dependent on the aviation sector for employment?

Boris Johnson Portrait The Prime Minister
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The hon. Lady will be hearing a lot more about that and other matters on 12 April.