{"value":{"id":1404698,"askingMemberId":347,"askingMember":null,"house":"Lords","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2022-01-19T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2022-02-02T00:00:00","uin":"HL5552","questionText":"To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to meet the Booksellers Association to discuss ways to support small creative businesses.","answeringBodyId":10,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":false,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4728,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2022-01-31T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The Booksellers Association regularly engages at Ministerial level with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).</p><p>On 15 July, BEIS published the Build Back Better High Streets Strategy, in which the Government committed to continue working with the retail sector, in particular the Retail Sector Council, on its long-term strategic needs to ensure that businesses are profitable, resilient, innovative, and able to support local economies in socially and environmentally responsible ways.</p><p>More broadly, DCMS regularly engages with the creative industries, including the publishing sector, through the Creative Industries Council. I have also met individual booksellers, most recently The Bound in Whitley Bay on 29 January, to hear how the Government can best support small creative businesses.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Publications: Retail Trade","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1404698","method":"GET"}]}