Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Caroline Lucas (Green Party), on Tuesday, 15 June 2021, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 21 members in total.

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Business support after delaying Stage 4 of the covid-19 roadmap

This House believes the decision to delay Stage 4 of the coronavirus roadmap until 19 July 2021 was, regrettably, the right one; recognises that this will be difficult for our constituents and for businesses that continue to be affected by restrictions on their ability to operate; welcomes the support the Treasury has provided to businesses and the self employed to date; calls on the Treasury to recognise that there is a strong case for further support to protect specific sectors of our economy; therefore calls on the Government to retain full furlough, self-employed income support, and full business rates relief, for at least six-months, removing the rateable value limit on business rates relief; further calls for new sector-specific ‘recovery grants’ with expanded eligibility, the extension of the 5 percent hospitality and tourism VAT rate, a Government-backed Covid-19 events cancellation insurance scheme, an extension of the ban on commercial evictions alongside a moratorium on landlords’ right to collect commercial rent to allow a fair arbitration process to be secured, and consideration to be given to writing of Covid loans for businesses worst affected and for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme to be fixed so those groups excluded to date can access support equivalent to that provided through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

204 

Session

2021-22

Other sponsors

John McDonnell

Jonathan Edwards

Wera Hobhouse

Mick Whitley

Kenny MacAskill

Subjects

Business Business premises Insurance Disease control Government assistance Evictions Business rates VAT Coronavirus Events industry

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk