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	date	19/03/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Food Supply: Business Rates
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps his Department is taking to extend business rate relief to food producers to mitigate the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on national food security.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	32217
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government has provided enhanced support to the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors given the acute impacts of COVID-19 on those sectors. A range of measures to support all businesses has been made available, including the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan scheme, and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to help firms continue to keep people in employment. HMRC have also set up a dedicated COVID-19 helpline to help those in need, and they may be able to agree a bespoke Time to Pay arrangement.</p><p> </p><p>This is the right response at the right time. As the wider economic picture becomes clearer, the Government will do whatever it takes to get the nation through the impacts of COVID-19, and the Government stands ready to announce further action wherever necessary.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 32218 question first answered 24/03/2020 15:28:32 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

1186566

	registered interest
	date	19/03/2020
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Food Supply: Coronavirus
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has plans to introduce tax breaks to enable food producers in financial distress as a result of the covid-19 outbreak to main food supplies.
	tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
	tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
	uin	32218
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/03/2020 answer text <p>The Government has provided enhanced support to the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors given the acute impacts of COVID-19 on those sectors. A range of measures to support all businesses has been made available, including the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan scheme, and the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to help firms continue to keep people in employment. HMRC have also set up a dedicated COVID-19 helpline to help those in need, and they may be able to agree a bespoke Time to Pay arrangement.</p><p> </p><p>This is the right response at the right time. As the wider economic picture becomes clearer, the Government will do whatever it takes to get the nation through the impacts of COVID-19, and the Government stands ready to announce further action wherever necessary.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman grouped question UIN 32217 question first answered 24/03/2020 15:28:31 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
	tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson