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	date	04/11/2020
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Hospitality Industry and Tourism: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	What support the Government is providing to the tourism and hospitality sectors in Northern Ireland during the covid-19 outbreak.
	tabling member constituency	Truro and Falmouth
	tabling member printed	Cherilyn Mackrory
	uin	908123
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/11/2020 answer text <p>The tourism and hospitality sectors have benefited from UK-wide Government financial support. This includes the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which has been extended for a further one month until December.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, a VAT cut to 5% has been extended for both sectors.</p><p> </p><p>While the Government will take every opportunity to promote Northern Ireland, tourism is the responsibility of the NI Executive, to whom the Government has provided £2.4bn to respond to the pandemic, including supporting those sectors most affected.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 04/11/2020 16:45:43 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4758 label Biography information for Cherilyn Mackrory

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	registered interest
	date	16/06/2020
	answering body	Northern Ireland Office
	answering dept id	21
	answering dept short name	Northern Ireland
	answering dept sort name	Northern Ireland
	hansard heading	Hospitality Industry and Tourism: Northern Ireland
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what steps his Department is taking to support the hospitality and tourism industries in Northern Ireland to prepare for the lifting of covid-19 lockdown restrictions.
	tabling member constituency	Clwyd South
	tabling member printed	Simon Baynes
	uin	59904
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/06/2020 answer text <p>The Secretary of State and I are working closely with Cabinet colleagues and the NI Executive to support businesses, including those in the tourism and hospitality sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic.</p><p> </p><p>Recognising the exceptional circumstances faced by businesses across the country, the Chancellor announced an unprecedented package of measures to support businesses, employees and the self-employed. This includes government backed loans and direct support for wages, which are available to the hospitality and tourism sectors.</p><p> </p><p>In Northern Ireland, this is supplemented by additional support for businesses from the NI Executive following significant increases of approximately £1.3bn in the spending power of the Executive to enable it to respond to Covid-19. The Executive has used this additional spending power to deliver the £25,000 Business Support Grant to help protect jobs, prevent business closures and promote economic recovery across some of the most significantly affected industries, including hospitality and tourism. This is in line with the £25,000 Business Support Grants being delivered in England, Scotland and Wales where the Business Support Grants are available for eligible businesses within the hospitality and tourism sectors.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has been developing guidance to help tourism and hospitality businesses plan for social distancing and hygiene measures and the NI Executive is considering how this can be tailored to Northern Ireland. I am pleased that the NI Executive has published dates for the re-opening of the tourism and hospitality sectors in NI beginning with camping and caravan sites as well as self-catering accommodation on 26 June.</p> answering member constituency Worcester answering member printed Mr Robin Walker question first answered 23/06/2020 11:41:58 answering member 4091 label Biography information for Mr Robin Walker
	tabling member	4800 label Biography information for Simon Baynes