The government risks 'irreparable damage' to the economy, the hospitality trade body has warned in a letter seen by Sky News.
The body representing thousands of leisure businesses across Britain has begged ministers to extend the moratorium on commercial property evictions or risk"irreparable" damage to the economy.
Sky News has been passed a letter from Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, to the housing secretary Robert Jenrick which claims that"hostile tactics" from landlords"risk crippling the hospitality sector". It is the latest in a series of warnings about the potentially dire fate of the pubs, hotels and restaurants industries as the coronavirus pandemic forces a months-long shutdown of high streets across the UK.
The government has introduced emergency legislation to protect business-owners, including a ban on evicting commercial tenants for three months. In her letter, which was copied to Alok Sharma, the business secretary, Ms Nicholls called for an extension to cover all sanctions, such as winding-up orders and commercial rent arrears recovery, for non-payment of rent.Hospitality businesses have seen their revenues dry up with shops and leisure facilities closed, and the country in a state of lockdown.
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