Economic Update Debate

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Department: HM Treasury
Wednesday 8th July 2020

(3 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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James Davies Portrait Dr James Davies (Vale of Clwyd) (Con)
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The tourism and hospitality sector right across the UK will thoroughly welcome my right hon. Friend’s announcements today, but the sector in my constituency will benefit only if it is allowed to open, so will he endorse the call by Jim Jones, the chief executive of North Wales Tourism, for the Welsh Government to open up restaurants, pubs, cafés and indoor attractions by no later than 19 July?

Rishi Sunak Portrait Rishi Sunak
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My hon. Friend knows well how important tourism is to Wales’s economy. In fact, it may well be more reliant on tourism than any other part of the UK, from memory, so I fully understand and sympathise with his desire to get his local tourism businesses open, ready for business and ready to ensure that we can all enjoy the summer safely in Wales.