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Today the Cultural Recovery Fund awards its first round of funding to 1,385 organisations.
Spanning theatre, dance, music and more the awarded amount is over £250million.
This will help protect the arts and save jobs. See the full list: bit.ly/33QspAX #HereForCulture
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✅ Job Support Scheme to be expanded to closed businesses
✅ Government will pay two-thirds of employees’ salaries to protect jobs
✅ Bigger cash grants for businesses required to close
Read more about today’s announcement: gov.uk/government/new…
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1/ I’m announcing today that I’m expanding the Jobs Support Scheme.
Where the coronavirus restrictions legally require business premises to close, in any region or nation of the UK, we will help pay employees’ wages.
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To people concerned by inaccurate reports that I told musicians to retrain... here’s the transcript. I did not say it and I do not think it.
Musicians don't need to retrain. When it's safe, venues need to reopen. That's why we've created a £1.57bn package to protect the arts.
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Freeports will create national hubs for trade, innovation and commerce, regenerating communities across the UK and supporting jobs.
Today we set out further details around how we will create a number of new innovative Freeports. Read more: gov.uk/government/new…
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An earlier @ITVNewsPolitics tweet falsely suggested I thought people in arts should retrain and find other jobs.
I'm grateful they have now deleted that tweet. I care deeply about the arts which is why our £1.57bn culture package is one of the most generous in the world. twitter.com/itvnews/status…
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I am committing myself to a single priority – to create, support and extend opportunity to as many people as I can.
Read my full conference speech here: conservatives.com/news/rishi-sun… #CPC20
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Watch my Conservative Party Conference speech live here👇
pscp.tv/w/ckmjXjFQbUtx…
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Great to see @asda returning to majority UK ownership for the first time in two decades today.
The new owners have already committed to investing over £1 billion in the next three years and increasing the proportion of UK-based suppliers. I wish them the best of luck. twitter.com/BBCNews/status…
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Get a £5,000 Green Homes Grant voucher and save money on your energy bills.
Make your home greener and cheaper to run whilst supporting 100k green jobs across the UK this winter.
Apply now: greenhomesgrant.campaign.gov.uk
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Today’s measures mark an important evolution in our approach.
Our lives can no longer be put on hold. Click below to read more about the Winter Economy Plan.
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Read more about today's Winter Economy Plan here:
gov.uk/government/top…
I will be taking questions from journalists live from 3pm.
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To support more than 150,000 businesses and protect 2.4 million jobs through the winter we are 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐀𝐓 for hospitality and tourism.
We will keep the lower 5% VAT rate until March 31st next year.
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Any of the millions of self-assessed income taxpayers who need extra help, can also now extend their outstanding tax bill over 12 months from January.
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1/ Nearly half a million businesses deferred more than £30 billion of VAT this year.
Those payments are all due in one lump sum in March. Instead, I’m allowing businesses to 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐕𝐀𝐓 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟏 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, with no interest to pay.
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To give businesses longer to apply for all of our loan schemes, I am extending all the deadlines to the end of the year.
We are starting work on a new, successor loan programme, set to begin in January.
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1/ Bounce Back Loans have given over a million small businesses a £38 billion boost to survive this pandemic.
To give those businesses more time and greater flexibility to repay their loans, we’re introducing 𝐏𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰.
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Throughout this crisis, we have ensured parity between employees and the self-employed.
So to support self-employed traders through the winter I am extending the existing self-employed grant on similar terms and conditions as the new Jobs Support Scheme.
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3/ The government, together with employers, will increase those people’s wages 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐/𝟑 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 by reducing their working hours.
The employee will keep their job. Anyone who as of yesterday is employed is eligible.
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2/ The scheme will support viable jobs so 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 and be paid for that work, as normal, by their employer.
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1/ The Job Support Scheme will directly support the wages of people in work, giving businesses who face depressed winter demand the option of keeping employees in a job on shorter hours rather than making them redundant.
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Watch my statement on our Winter Economy Plan live👇
pscp.tv/w/cjsgDDFQbUtx…
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Productive meeting and pleased to have support for our Winter Economy Plan from @cbicarolyn of @CBItweets and @FrancesOGrady of @The_TUC ahead of my statement to the House of Commons shortly.
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As our response to coronavirus adapts, tomorrow afternoon I will update the House of Commons on our plans to continue protecting jobs through the winter.
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House sales rising: bit.ly/3crScSv
Work coaches hiring bit.ly/32P2j0q
Kickstart recruiting bit.ly/3mPQlvN
Restaurants serving bit.ly/3hX3K13
Green Home Grants launching bit.ly/2G3qgbi
Plan For Jobs. 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠.
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧
@Conservatives leader.
MP for Richmond (Yorks).