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Reducing Costs for Businesses

Proceeding contribution from Lee Rowley (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 11 January 2022. It occurred during Opposition day on Reducing Costs for Businesses.

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point that demonstrates the different challenges for different businesses in different parts of the country, and why the half-baked plans that the Labour party has put forward today—almost—demonstrate that it does not have a coherent plan to face the challenges.

All those measures came on top of more than £79 billion of Government loan schemes, which have directly supported over 1.5 million businesses. On the specific point in the Labour motion about repayments, which the hon. Member for Stalybridge and Hyde did not discuss to any great extent in his opening speech, we have already changed the way that they work to provide greater flexibility for individual circumstances through things such as “Pay as you grow”.

At every twist and turn of the virus, the Government have acted decisively to protect businesses and livelihoods. I refute in the strongest possible terms the charge made by the motion that we have failed to support UK businesses through the pandemic.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
706 c511 
Session
2021-22
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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