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High Streets Task Force

Asked by Dame Harriett BaldwinConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 9 January 2025UIN 19680

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To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has met with the UK High Streets Taskforce.

Answered by Gareth Thomas

Across Government, Ministers and officials meet with a range of high street experts. I have recently met with the Hospitality Sector Council and Retail Sector Council and visited Gateshead and Consett town centres.

To mark Small Business Saturday, the Secretary of State visited Walthamstow High Street and Sunflour Café in Islington, meeting with the businesses which that make our town centres successful. We continue to engage with those involved in the delivery of the High Streets Task Force, which has now concluded, to learn the lessons from the programme.

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