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HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportThe hon. Lady raises a serious issue and one that all Members of the House care deeply about, but it is also important to look at the package as a whole. We have put in an…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportThe right hon. Gentleman raises a valid and fair point. As I said on my call with the First Minister yesterday, I hope to be in a position to update her this week about the…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportI am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for that. He is quite right to pick up on the IMF’s report and the comments of its director. It is worth reminding the House exactly…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportI am always very happy to meet my hon. Friend. She is right to talk about a sector that has been particularly hit by the impact of the covid pandemic. She will be aware that, as…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportAt the risk of repeating myself, I refer the hon. Lady to the reply I gave earlier, but she did make a specific point about those who may have recently been made redundant. […03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportI agree with my right hon. Friend that we need to ensure that the economy is able to bounce back quickly. That is why we have provided over £13 billion of support to the…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportMy hon. Friend has a deep understanding of business from his career prior to coming to the House. He is absolutely right to talk of the personal consequences, the commitment that…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportSuch has been the number of times that the matter has been raised in the House and through the campaign that, we have looked at it. Some of those issues have not changed—for…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportFor reasons I set out some time ago to the Treasury Committee, and for the reasons set out by the Chancellor, operationally the concern is that while there will of course be many…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportThe hon. Lady is right to point to the pivotal nature of leisure centres in our constituencies. I think all Members would agree with that. I draw her attention to the £4.7 billion…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportAs I said earlier, these are UK-wide schemes. We continue to listen and engage, but the schemes apply on a UK-wide basis. That has been the case throughout, and that continues to…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportThe coach firms sector has been particularly impacted as a consequence of covid. That is why, in response, we worked with the Department for Education to provide over £70 million…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportI do find it somewhat surprising to be asked to have a meeting the day after I had a meeting with the First Minister of Scotland, who I assume spoke with the authority of the…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportFirst, on the suggestion that there has been a differentiated approach, the point is that a number of arrangements were put in place, for example, with the Mayor of the Liverpool…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportMy right hon. Friend makes an interesting point. She will know that in terms of the epidemiology and the guidance, that is for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportSeveral times now I have quoted what was said. The Prime Minister said that the Government will always be there to provide support to all parts of the United Kingdom. It is worth…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportMy hon. Friend makes a hugely important point. It is not just the number of jobs that are lost, but the duration of time that people are out of those jobs they that is critical in…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportMy hon. Friend is right to pick out the specific challenges faced by the supply chains, often because they supply multiple sectors; they may not be in a given sector where there…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportIn short, yes they can. My hon. Friend raises a valid point, which is that a number of businesses will have taken out loans for what they felt was their need at that time. Further…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Lockdown: Economic SupportThe hon. Lady is conflating several different issues. First, the furlough had not expired; it was running until the end of October. It applied universally until that point, so the…03 Nov 2020