Question follow-through · 60778
Hospitality Industry: Rural Areas
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to support the (a) hospitality and (b) pub sector in rural areas.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps her Department is taking to support the (a) hospitality and (b) pub sector in rural areas.
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jun 2025
Answer published
On 4 April 2025, the Government announced the Licensing Policy Taskforce, which is currently working intensely with the industry to ensure licensing conditions for businesses within the sector – such as pubs, restaurants, and music venues – are proportion...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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