Peter Aldous welcomes the PM’s cautious approach to ending lockdown and seeks confirmation that the plan is co-ordinated with the forthcoming Budget with support for badly affected businesses in sectors such as hospitality and the £20 uplift to universal credit.
Peter Aldous (Waveney) (Con) [V]
I thank the Prime Minister for his statement and for the precautionary approach that he is pursuing to lifting the lockdown. It is clear that the impact of covid will be with us for some time, and I would thus be most grateful if he could confirm that this plan is co-ordinated and synchronised with the measures that the Chancellor will announce in the Budget, and that there will be ongoing support both for badly affected businesses in sectors such as hospitality and for those people who are relying on the £20 uplift to universal credit.
The Prime Minister
Yes, of course we will make sure that we continue to look after people throughout the pandemic, as we have done since the beginning. The Chancellor will be setting out next week exactly what we are doing.