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Hospitality Industry: Cleaning Services

Asked by Gareth DaviesConservativeDepartment for Business and TradeTabled Answered 5 June 2026UIN 3850

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of including commercial laundry services within wider sector support for hospitality.

Answered by Kate Dearden

The Department has not made a specific assessment of the case for including commercial laundry services within hospitality sector support. Our support for hospitality is focused on businesses directly operating within that sector, including through measures such as business rates relief and wider cross‑economy support. Businesses providing services to hospitality can benefit from broader schemes available to all sectors, including access to finance and business support programmes.

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