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HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateThe circumstances of everyone who is self-employed will be different. It may well be that they own a business premises, which will benefit from business rates relief or a cash…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateIt is precisely because we took a generous and universal approach to eligibility for the job support scheme, with its new generosity, that supply chains of all affected industries…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateThe hon. Lady is right to highlight the particular importance of good-quality childcare, which, as she said, enables mums to protect their employment. I am happy to look at the…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateWe have addressed this point before, but I am happy to repeat it. Very low-paid workers will benefit from the flexibility and responsiveness of universal credit, and that is where…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateI am very grateful for my hon. Friend’s kind—I think—compliments; he knows that he is a large part of the reason why I am in this House, so he can take as much of the credit or…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the supply chains of those who serve the hospitality industry. I draw his attention to two things. The tier 2 grant programme…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateI would not consider that providing £200 billion of total support could ever be accused of doing anything on the cheap. That money has gone to support public services like the…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateYes, I can, and I hope I did, provide that reassurance. For all areas that have been suffering essentially de facto restrictions, as the hon. Gentleman said, we will backdate the…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I thank her for her warm words. She knows, as someone who is a huge champion of small businesses in her area, repeatedly bringing their…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateI know that my hon. Friend is a proud champion of all her local pubs, judging by all her Instagram photos—I am very jealous. Having visited many of them with her during the…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateGiven that the grants are backdated, if that results in extra Barnett consequentials, of course that extra funding will flow to Northern Ireland, as it will to other devolved…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateI am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising this. He has raised with me the impact on businesses in his area of a potential move into tier 2, and I hope he will be reassured by…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. When I talk to both businesses and employees, they say that what they want is to be able to go to the jobs they love. They want to be able to…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateI thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. He is right and I can appreciate the confusion. We try to do things on a UK-wide level, but obviously not everything will be on that…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. The self-employed are a part of the entrepreneurial side of our economy that will help to drive our recovery. It is right that they receive…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateI know that it is a difficult time for the hon. Gentleman’s constituents, and he is right that they should engage constructively. I am glad that he and his local area are doing…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateLet me speak first to the people of Liverpool, Lancashire, South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester, and other areas moving into or already living under heightened health…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateThis is the third time I have come to this House in several weeks to outline additional support for the economy, jobs and livelihoods. It is a sign of the seriousness of the…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateIf the hon. Member wants to write to me with Kim’s particular circumstances, I would be happy to see what various things we have done that may be of benefit to her and her…22 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: Economy UpdateMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am always grateful to hear from Mayor Andy Street. Andy has rightly put on the agenda the situation for businesses, especially hospitality…22 Oct 2020