The Government have significantly increased the hospitality support fund, providing £10 million over three years to help hospitality businesses become more resilient. We have permanently reduced business rates for eligible retail, hospitality and leisure properties, benefiting 750,000 properties. We are also beginning cross-Government work on a high streets strategy, developed with businesses and representatives, to be published later this year.

I recognise that energy costs remain one of the biggest pressures facing hospitality businesses. The Government are prioritising on having more of our own power here in Britain to tackle the root cause of unstable energy markets. We are working closely with businesses, and across the sector, to understand the pressures, and we will continue to do so in a responsible way.

Our focus is on skills and training, and getting young people into work. We provide full training costs for young apprentices aged 16 to 21, and employers are not required to pay national insurance contributions for all apprentices under the age of 25. We are looking to our £820 million youth guarantee and so much more to provide employment support and to give them a guaranteed job.

This Government are restoring stability and rebuilding opportunity for people. Hospitality thrives when the economy grows, wages rise, and people have more money to spend. We are reforming the broken system of business rates and building a better support system for businesses, so they can thrive and support all employment, particularly for our young people.

We are working with local authorities to make it easier to provide signage to charging facilities on local roads. In a move to help EV drivers to plug in to the rapidly expanding charging network, the Government are also modernising EV charging signage on major A roads, allowing larger EV charging hubs to be signposted from major A roads.

We have reviewed the beer market to assess any barriers facing small breweries and will announce the outcome in due course.

The hon. Lady will have heard in my earlier remarks that I absolutely recognise those pressures and meet hospitality businesses regularly to hear their concerns; energy costs have, of course, come up as one of the biggest pressures facing them. I recognise the concerns those businesses will have when looking at the Gulf conflict and its possible impacts. As the hon. Lady will have heard in my earlier answer, the real risk to businesses is dependence on the volatile international gas markets, which has left us exposed. She will know the work that we are doing in different Departments to recognise that and to tackle that root cause in order to provide better support for businesses. We are looking at the unstable energy markets that have left us exposed and trying to ensure that we have more power here in Britain; we will work with the sector closely and across Government on that.