It is, however, about the balance between the two. In relatively successful towns or very successful cities such as Bath, which I represent, shops are still doing fine but life is more expensive, so the balance of what people take home as pay and what they have to spend to live in an expensive city is much higher, too. The balance of the two, even in good, successful town centres such as Bath—and it is not that successful—is not right.
Retail Sector
Proceeding contribution from
Wera Hobhouse
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 6 June 2018.
It occurred during Opposition day on Retail Sector.
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Session
2017-19
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2019-05-01 16:48:36 +0100
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