Licensed trade, tourism and hospitality sectors give evidence to Committee

• Parliament TV: Regenerating Seaside Towns
• Regenerating Seaside Towns Committee

Witnesses

Tuesday 30 October in Committee Room 2A, Palace of Westminster

At approximately 3.20pm

• Daniel Davies, Chairman, Institute of Licensing
• Brigid Simmonds OBE, Chief Executive, British Beer and Pub Association
  

At approximately 4.10pm

• Gordon Marsden MP, Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group for Tourism, Leisure and the Hospitality Industry
• Steve Double MP, Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Visitors' Economy.
  

Possible questions

Questions the Committee is likely to ask include:

• How does the night-time economy support economic activity in seaside towns and communities?
• How would a cut in tourism VAT help the UK's tourism and hospitality industries?
• What impact is the current business rates regime having on the licensed trade operating in coastal areas?
• Is the hospitality industry right to be concerned about the potential impact leaving the European Union will have on its workforce?
• Is change needed at the national level to address challenges faced by the education and skills system in seaside towns, particularly at the secondary level?
• Do local authorities have sufficient powers and resources to deal with the housing problems they face?
• How much of a difference has the Coastal Communities Fund made? Does it have enough money?
• What should the key priorities be for the Shared Prosperity Fund? How can coastal towns and communities benefit from it?
  

Further information

• About Parliament: Select Committees
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