Question follow-through · 49803
Hospitality Industry: Government Assistance
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support independent hospitality businesses.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 1 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 May 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps he is taking to support independent hospitality businesses.
7 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
Hospitality businesses are at the heart of our communities and play a vital role in supporting economic growth and social cohension across the UK.We recently launched a licensing taskforce to reduce red tape and barriers that too often hold businesses bac...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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