Gym and beauty salon owners were given fresh hope of reopening soon this afternoon by Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg.
After a request for more information was issued by Tory Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes) over when these businesses, which are still currently banned from reopening, would be able to, Mr Rees-Mogg said: "Our hope is to reopen gyms and leisure facilities in mid-July.
"Other close-contact services, tattoo and nail parlours, will follow as soon as possible.
"The Government has been clear that it wants to reopen the economy carefully and gradually and this is why some businesses which involve less sustained contact between people have opened before others.”
PA reports how earlier in a response to Tory Caroline Ansell’s (Eastbourne) call for the return of gyms, Mr Rees-Mogg said: "I can’t claim to be a native gym goer personally.
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"I did have to go occasionally in my childhood and never quite recovered from the experience, but many people up and down the country will be very keen to get back to sports centres, gymnasiums, and swimming pools to get themselves into peak physical performance.
"And they can then compensate by eating out to get back the calories that they’ve just worn off when they have been in the gymnasium."
