UK Parliament / Open data

Retail Sector

Proceeding contribution from Drew Hendry (Scottish National Party) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 6 June 2018. It occurred during Opposition day on Retail Sector.

I would love to give the hon. Gentleman a direct answer, but I have not come across that situation myself. I will happily look into it. I will not come here and make up something that I do not know anything about, so I will look into the lease issue for him.

I will come back to what the Scottish Government are doing in Scotland later in my speech. In tough times, the last thing that retailers need is for costs to rise. When prices go up, the number of customers goes down. It is a natural cause and effect of that. The biggest current risk to the Scottish economy and the retail sector comes from the hard Brexit that is on the table now from this Tory Government. We still do not know what the Labour position is. [Interruption.] Well, we still do not know what the Labour position is on a hard Brexit. Hopefully, we will find out soon.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
642 c333 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Back to top