High Street Businesses

Part of Business and Trade – in the House of Commons am ar 5 Medi 2024.

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Photo of Gareth Thomas Gareth Thomas Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)

First, let me take this opportunity to say how much of a pleasure it is to see my hon. Friend back in this House; I went up to his constituency during the by-election campaign, and his result was one of many on election night that brought us all great pleasure.

We set out a five-point plan when we were in opposition to support businesses on high streets. At the heart of that was a plan to introduce a fairer business rates system, which I know colleagues in the Treasury are working very hard on. We also want to tackle the high levels of retail crime that scar too many of our high streets, and we will be bringing forward proposals on that in due course too.