Debate contribution: High Street Task Force
Debate contribution by Mr Stewart Dickson on .
- MLA
- Mr Stewart Dickson
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 8 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- High Street Task Force
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5600438
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Deputy First Minister, I appreciate your comments about the global effect on our high streets, the report that was delivered in 2023 and the actions that flowed from that. However, with the exception of rate reduction, it is genuinely difficult to see how those actions have hit home on our high streets. I think particularly of my home town of Carrickfergus where more businesses are closing down than are opening up and where there is dereliction on the high street. What support will the Executive give to my colleague, Minister Muir, on the Dilapidation Bill? Do you agree with me that that is one aspect that will help to revitalise our high streets?
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