Ms Sophie Ridley:

I hope Deputy Brophy is not right about how long it will take but I have a fear he may be. We need to keep our members alive and well enough not to have to take jobs in other sectors, so that when we go back to work we will have the skills we have taken so long to build up. For our individual members, that is to keep the Covid payments going until we go back to work. It is support from the banks for their loans and mortgages. For our SMEs, it is grants to help with the rent and rates and a reduction in or a holiday from commercial rates in order that we can pay for warehouses full of equipment. We have already addressed the question of VAT.