VoteClimate: Social Distancing Restrictions: Support for the Night-Time Economy - 8th June 2021

Social Distancing Restrictions: Support for the Night-Time Economy - 8th June 2021

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Social Distancing Restrictions: Support for the Night-Time Economy.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-06-08/debates/95E007B2-98BC-44F7-954D-BF0F8A2D1BDD/SocialDistancingRestrictionsSupportForTheNight-TimeEconomy

11:10 The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Paul Scully)

There are three Rs: reopening—we have to get back to full capacity to start making money again and start paying back the three years of debt that the hon. Gentleman talked about. Then, recovery—going through that process, starting to have more easements from local authorities to help support that. It is also about resilience, which brings us back to the long-term issue of staffing. What makes hospitality so flexible is that it has a low bar for entry. A student can go in and do a few shifts at a pub without any qualifications. But we want to make sure that people can see a career path in hospitality, so that although there is a degree of flexibility, that is not the same as instability. We want to give that stability through a greater skills offering for the hospitality sector. As we build back better and fairer for the workers in that sector, we will also build back greener, seeing what more we can do to further the Government priority of driving towards net zero, by means of practices in the hospitality sector. There is a lot to be working on.

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