New data has revealed that pubs and hospitality venues lost £10,000 in the week before Christmas.
UKHospitality found a drop in takings by 60% on Christmas Day, with London being hit the hardest.
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Gillian Keegan, health minister, defended the government’s support to hospitality, which is grants of a maximum of £6,000. This is below average losses.
Keegan said: “People are still going out. “I have been out a couple of times – my sister is over from the States, so we have been out to a couple of restaurants – and they have been pretty full.
“So, you know, I’m obviously in London at the moment, but I think people are still going out, but they are just taking a lateral flow test before and obviously being a bit more cautious.”