Non-essential shops will be reopening on April 12 as planned, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed.
The Government announcement comes as research finds almost 190,000 jobs have been lost in the retail sector since shops were first forced to shut their doors a year ago.
The Centre for Retail Research data reveals that 188,685 retail jobs have vanished between the start of the first lockdown in 2020 and March 31 this year.
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Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, has warned that unless the Government provides more support there will be further administrations in the months to come.
She said the Government must provide firms which have been hardest hit by the pandemic with the "necessary support".
Ms Dickinson said: “This means extending the moratorium on aggressive debt enforcement, removing EU state aid caps on support grants, and providing targeted business rates support to those companies worst affected by the pandemic.”
But which shops have fallen into administration in the last 12 months?
We have put together a list of all the shops that have collapsed so far in 2021 as the pandemic continues to take its toll on the high street.
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We have also put together a full list of 海角视频 shops that went into administration in 2020.
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