Member

I do not think there is much more I can say until we hear from the Minister, but I very much hope that he does not use all the arguments that I have rehearsed and tried to push back on: that studios are not public-facing like shops, that we cannot afford to extend relief or that we have competitive grant funding out there. As the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson, also said, this is, in many ways, contrary to what the Government are trying to do in their creative sector strategy. If the Government were seriously thinking straight, they would be very mindful of the impact of the issues that we are talking about today.