Eat Out to Help Out Scheme set the hospitality industry back, says expert

A Scottish public health expert has claimed that the UK Government’s Eat Out to Help Out Scheme has set the hospitality industry back.
Professor Devi SridharProfessor Devi Sridhar
Professor Devi Sridhar

Devi Sridhar, professor and chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh commented that the scheme has been ‘one step forward for the industry, five step backwards’ for the hospitality industry.

Prof. Sridhar told the All Parliamentary Group on Coronavirus that the scheme had given a “boost to the hospitality industry in the summer but now many are being shut”.

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She said the sector was “vital” but also “one of the riskiest settings for transmission”, and warned against “short-term populist views that pump money in that don’t do it in a sustainable way”.

Many restaurants around Scotland and the rest of the UK have extended the scheme at their own expense throughout October as the treasury resisted calls to provide further financial funding for the scheme.

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