Oral Question·Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
“What plans the Government has to support music businesses in the event that they cannot reopen when the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme ends.”
Tabled: 17 September 2020Answered: 24 September 2020
Asked by
Pete Wishart
Scottish National Party — Perth and Kinross-shire
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Answer from Hansard
The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr Douglas Alexander)
Over the last year, we have increased the national living wage—a pay rise for 200,000 of the lowest-paid Scots—delivered a generational upgrade to workers’ rights, had five interest rate cuts, and expanded the warm home discount scheme, meaning one in five Scottish households are getting £150 off their bills. But we need to go further and faster, and the Chancellor has pledged targeted action to bring down inflation further.