Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether charity shops are classed as essential retailers and are able to open during the second covid-19 lockdown.
Answered by Paul Scully
Government has published details of guidance which sets out the restrictions that certain businesses and venues in England will be required to follow from 5 November, so that businesses can assess whether they can remain open having considered the guidance and Regulations.
All shops can continue to offer home delivery and click and collect services to customers?during the national restrictions in place from 5 November.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much each local authority area will receive under the additional covid-19 restrictions support grant; and what the formula is for that allocation.
Answered by Nadhim Zahawi
With the implementation of national restrictions, the Additional Restrictions Grant has been allocated across England at £20 per head of residential population. Areas that went into the Local Covid Alert Level at ‘Very High’, prior to national restrictions, received aggregate sums at city region level. These sumsvary slightly from the Additional Restrictions Grant and where this was under the £20 per head rate, we have topped up the funding. For example, in Liverpool City Region, funding was increased from £30 million to £31.2 million.
Local authority allocations are set out below. Where local authorities show as £0 it is because local authorities have agreed for their allocation to be paid to their Combined Authority. Combined Authority allocations are shown at the bottom of the table. Nine Greater Manchester Local Authorities have agreed for their share of £60million funding to be pooled, with Bolton Council receiving its proportionate share separately.
Local Authority | Additional Restrictions Grant |
Adur District Council | £1,286,020 |
Allerdale Borough Council | £1,955,220 |
Amber Valley Borough Council | £2,562,940 |
Arun District Council | £3,215,160 |
Ashfield District Council | £2,558,360 |
Ashford Borough Council | £2,600,640 |
Babergh District Council | £1,840,720 |
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council | £0 |
Barrow Borough Council | £1,340,980 |
Basildon Council | £3,743,980 |
Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council | £3,531,640 |
Bassetlaw District Council | £2,349,180 |
Bath and North East Somerset Council | £3,865,640 |
Bedford Borough Council | £3,465,840 |
Birmingham City Council | £22,836,320 |
Blaby District Council | £2,030,520 |
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council | £2,993,920 |
Blackpool Council | £2,788,920 |
Bolsover District Council | £1,611,240 |
Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council | £6,084,000 |
Borough Council of Kings Lynn & West Norfolk | £3,027,660 |
Borough Council of Wellingborough | £1,594,140 |
Borough of Broxbourne Council | £1,945,580 |
Boston Borough Council | £1,403,460 |
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Borough Council | £7,906,620 |
Bracknell Forest Council | £2,450,980 |
Braintree District Council | £3,052,080 |
Breckland Council | £2,799,360 |
Brentwood Borough Council | £1,540,420 |
Brighton & Hove City Council | £5,817,700 |
Bristol City Council | £9,267,540 |
Broadland District Council | £2,615,660 |
Bromsgrove District Council | £1,997,620 |
Broxtowe Borough Council | £2,280,660 |
Buckinghamshire Council | £10,879,460 |
Burnley Borough Council | £1,778,400 |
Bury Council | £0 |
Calderdale Council | £4,229,100 |
Cambridge City Council | £2,495,960 |
Cannock Chase District Council | £2,015,240 |
Canterbury City Council | £3,307,880 |
Carlisle City Council | £2,173,560 |
Castle Point Borough Council | £1,807,520 |
Central Bedfordshire Council | £5,772,960 |
Charnwood Borough Council | £3,717,020 |
Chelmsford City Council | £3,567,760 |
Cheltenham Borough Council | £2,326,120 |
Cherwell District Council | £3,010,060 |
Cheshire East Council | £7,683,040 |
Cheshire West & Chester Council | £6,861,420 |
Chesterfield Borough Council | £2,098,000 |
Chichester District Council | £2,422,580 |
Chorley Borough Council | £2,364,320 |
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council | £10,795,520 |
City of Lincoln Council | £1,985,980 |
City of London | £194,420 |
City of Wolverhampton Council | £5,267,140 |
City of York Council | £4,212,360 |
Colchester Borough Council | £3,894,120 |
Copeland Borough Council | £1,363,660 |
Corby Borough Council | £1,444,360 |
Cornwall Council | £11,391,560 |
Cotswold District Council | £1,797,240 |
Council of the Isles of Scilly | £44,480 |
Coventry City Council | £7,430,420 |
Craven District Council | £1,142,840 |
Crawley Borough Council | £2,248,180 |
Dacorum Borough Council | £3,095,260 |
Darlington Borough Council | £2,136,060 |
Dartford Borough Council | £2,252,120 |
Daventry District Council | £1,719,000 |
Derby City Council | £5,146,040 |
Derbyshire Dales District Council | £1,446,500 |
Doncaster Council | £0 |
Dorset Council | £7,570,160 |
Dover District Council | £2,362,620 |
Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | £6,431,920 |
Durham County Council | £10,601,880 |
East Cambridgeshire District Council | £1,796,800 |
East Devon District Council | £2,925,680 |
East Hampshire District Council | £2,446,160 |
East Herts District Council | £2,994,960 |
East Lindsey District Council | £2,834,540 |
East Northamptonshire Council | £1,890,540 |
East Riding of Yorkshire Council | £6,823,460 |
East Staffordshire Borough Council | £2,395,080 |
East Suffolk Council | £4,989,220 |
Eastbourne Borough Council | £2,074,900 |
Eastleigh Borough Council | £2,671,680 |
Eden District Council | £1,065,060 |
Elmbridge Borough Council | £2,735,900 |
Epping Forest District Council | £2,633,780 |
Epsom & Ewell Borough Council | £1,612,540 |
Erewash Borough Council | £2,307,420 |
Exeter City Council | £2,628,100 |
Fareham Borough Council | £2,324,660 |
Fenland District Council | £2,037,000 |
Folkestone and Hythe District Council | £2,259,920 |
Forest of Dean District Council | £1,735,820 |
Fylde Council | £1,615,600 |
Gateshead Council | £4,041,100 |
Gedling Borough Council | £2,357,920 |
Gloucester City Council | £2,582,560 |
Gosport Borough Council | £1,696,760 |
Gravesham Borough Council | £2,138,780 |
Gt Yarmouth Borough Council | £1,986,720 |
Guildford Borough Council | £2,979,960 |
Halton Borough Council | £0 |
Hambleton District Council | £1,831,880 |
Harborough District Council | £1,876,140 |
Harlow Council | £1,741,340 |
Harrogate Borough Council | £3,216,620 |
Hart District Council | £1,941,460 |
Hartlepool Borough Council | £1,873,260 |
Hastings Borough Council | £1,853,220 |
Havant Borough Council | £2,524,400 |
Herefordshire Council | £3,856,020 |
Hertsmere Borough Council | £2,098,380 |
High Peak Borough Council | £1,853,320 |
Hinckley & Bosworth Borough Council | £2,262,720 |
Horsham District Council | £2,875,820 |
Hull City council | £5,195,560 |
Huntingdonshire District Council | £3,559,260 |
Hyndburn Borough Council | £1,620,860 |
Ipswich Borough Council | £2,738,260 |
Isle of Wight Council | £2,835,420 |
Kettering Borough Council | £2,035,520 |
Kirklees Council | £8,795,740 |
Knowsley Council | £0 |
Lancaster City Council | £2,920,760 |
Leeds City Council | £15,862,780 |
Leicester City Council | £7,084,480 |
Lewes District Council | £2,065,360 |
Lichfield District Council | £2,095,120 |
Liverpool City Council | £0 |
London Borough of Barking & Dagenham | £4,258,120 |
London Borough of Barnet | £7,917,380 |
London Borough of Bexley | £4,965,740 |
London Borough of Brent | £6,595,420 |
London Borough of Bromley | £6,646,720 |
London Borough of Camden | £5,400,580 |
London Borough of Croydon | £7,734,200 |
London Borough of Ealing | £6,836,120 |
London Borough of Enfield | £6,675,880 |
London Borough of Greenwich | £5,758,840 |
London Borough of Hackney | £5,622,400 |
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham | £3,702,860 |
London Borough of Haringey | £5,372,940 |
London Borough of Harrow | £5,023,200 |
London Borough of Havering | £5,191,040 |
London Borough of Hillingdon | £6,137,400 |
London Borough of Hounslow | £5,430,460 |
London Borough of Islington | £4,849,340 |
London Borough of Lambeth | £6,520,680 |
London Borough of Lewisham | £6,116,840 |
London Borough of Merton | £4,130,960 |
London Borough of Newham | £7,062,680 |
London Borough of Redbridge | £6,104,440 |
London Borough of Richmond | £3,960,380 |
London Borough of Southwark | £6,376,600 |
London Borough of Sutton | £4,126,980 |
London Borough of Tower Hamlets | £6,494,900 |
London Borough of Waltham Forest | £5,539,660 |
London Borough of Wandsworth | £6,593,540 |
Luton Borough Council | £4,261,040 |
Maidstone Borough Council | £3,436,520 |
Maldon District Council | £1,298,520 |
Malvern Hills District Council | £1,573,960 |
Manchester City Council | £0 |
Mansfield District Council | £2,186,260 |
Medway Council | £5,571,120 |
Melton Borough Council | £1,024,180 |
Mendip District Council | £2,311,740 |
Mid Devon District Council | £1,646,220 |
Mid Suffolk District Council | £2,077,900 |
Mid Sussex District Council | £3,020,440 |
Middlesbrough Council | £2,819,600 |
Milton Keynes Council | £5,389,140 |
Mole Valley District Council | £1,744,900 |
New Forest District Council | £3,601,720 |
Newark & Sherwood District Council | £2,448,420 |
Newcastle City Council | £6,056,400 |
Newcastle Under Lyme Borough Council | £2,588,820 |
North Devon Council | £1,942,900 |
North East Derbyshire District Council | £2,029,240 |
North East Lincolnshire Council | £3,191,260 |
North Hertfordshire District Council | £2,671,400 |
North Kesteven District Council | £2,338,300 |
North Lincolnshire Council | £3,445,840 |
North Norfolk District Council | £2,096,740 |
North Somerset Council | £4,301,040 |
North Tyneside Council | £4,158,260 |
North Warwickshire Borough Council | £1,305,280 |
North West Leicestershire District Council | £2,072,220 |
Northampton Borough Council | £4,492,200 |
Northumberland County Council | £6,448,680 |
Norwich City Council | £2,811,460 |
Nottingham City Council | £6,658,000 |
Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council | £2,597,660 |
Oadby and Wigston Borough Council | £1,140,300 |
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council | £0 |
Oxford City Council | £3,049,140 |
Pendle Borough Council | £1,842,240 |
Peterborough City Council | £4,045,180 |
Plymouth City Council | £5,242,000 |
Portsmouth City Council | £4,298,100 |
Preston City Council | £2,862,700 |
Reading Borough Council | £3,235,600 |
Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council | £2,743,000 |
Redditch Borough Council | £1,705,220 |
Reigate & Banstead Borough Council | £2,974,960 |
Ribble Valley Borough Council | £1,217,760 |
Richmondshire District Council | £1,074,600 |
Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council | £0 |
Rochford District Council | £1,747,360 |
Rossendale Borough Council | £1,429,640 |
Rother District Council | £1,921,600 |
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council | £0 |
Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea | £3,122,580 |
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames | £3,550,140 |
Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead | £3,028,440 |
Rugby Borough Council | £2,178,700 |
Runnymede Borough Council | £1,788,480 |
Rushcliffe Borough Council | £2,383,680 |
Rushmoor Borough Council | £1,891,980 |
Rutland County Council | £798,540 |
Ryedale District Council | £1,107,600 |
Salford City Council | £0 |
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | £6,569,000 |
Scarborough Borough Council | £2,175,140 |
Sedgemoor District Council | £2,463,560 |
Sefton Council | £0 |
Selby District Council | £1,812,400 |
Sevenoaks District Council | £2,415,000 |
Sheffield City Council | £0 |
Shropshire Council | £6,462,720 |
Slough Borough Council | £2,990,780 |
Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council | £4,327,480 |
Somerset West and Taunton Council | £3,102,300 |
South Cambridgeshire District Council | £3,181,720 |
South Derbyshire District Council | £2,145,220 |
South Gloucestershire Council | £5,701,860 |
South Hams District Council | £1,740,080 |
South Holland District Council | £1,900,380 |
South Kesteven District Council | £2,848,480 |
South Lakeland District Council | £2,101,760 |
South Norfolk Council | £2,817,600 |
South Northamptonshire Council | £1,889,800 |
South Oxfordshire District Council | £2,841,140 |
South Ribble Borough Council | £2,215,760 |
South Somerset District Council | £3,366,900 |
South Staffordshire District Council | £2,248,720 |
South Tyneside Council | £3,019,520 |
Southampton City Council | £5,050,400 |
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council | £3,662,500 |
Spelthorne Borough Council | £1,996,880 |
St Albans City and District Council | £2,969,040 |
St Helens Metropolitan Borough Council | £0 |
Stafford Borough Council | £2,745,600 |
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council | £1,968,700 |
Stevenage Borough Council | £1,756,900 |
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council | £0 |
Stockton On Tees Borough Council | £3,946,960 |
Stoke on Trent City Council | £5,127,500 |
Stratford-on-Avon District Council | £2,601,960 |
Stroud District Council | £2,399,280 |
Sunderland City Council | £5,554,100 |
Surrey Heath Borough Council | £1,786,100 |
Swale Borough Council | £3,001,640 |
Swindon Borough Council | £4,443,860 |
Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council | £0 |
Tamworth Borough Council | £1,533,920 |
Tandridge District Council | £1,762,580 |
Teignbridge District Council | £2,683,260 |
Telford & Wrekin Council | £3,597,080 |
Tendring District Council | £2,931,220 |
Test Valley Borough Council | £2,523,200 |
Tewkesbury Borough Council | £1,900,380 |
Thanet District Council | £2,838,440 |
Three Rivers District Council | £1,866,460 |
Thurrock Council | £3,486,820 |
Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council | £2,643,060 |
Torbay Council | £2,725,280 |
Torridge District Council | £1,365,340 |
Trafford Council | £0 |
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council | £2,374,480 |
Uttlesford District Council | £1,825,680 |
Vale of White Horse District Council | £2,720,140 |
Wakefield Metropolitan District Council | £6,966,240 |
Walsall Council | £5,709,560 |
Warrington Borough Council | £4,200,280 |
Warwick District Council | £2,875,060 |
Watford Borough Council | £1,931,540 |
Waverley Borough Council | £2,526,560 |
Wealden District Council | £3,229,500 |
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council | £2,460,860 |
West Berkshire Council | £3,169,000 |
West Devon Borough Council | £1,115,920 |
West Lancashire Borough Council | £2,286,120 |
West Lindsey District Council | £1,913,340 |
West Oxfordshire District Council | £2,212,860 |
West Suffolk Council | £3,580,900 |
Westminster City Council | £5,226,340 |
Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council | £0 |
Wiltshire Council | £10,000,480 |
Winchester City Council | £2,497,180 |
Wirral Council | £0 |
Woking Borough Council | £2,015,860 |
Wokingham Borough Council | £3,422,380 |
Worcester City Council | £2,024,440 |
Worthing Borough Council | £2,211,400 |
Wychavon District Council | £2,588,660 |
Wyre Council | £2,241,820 |
Wyre Forest District Council | £2,025,820 |
Greater Manchester Combined Authority | £53,916,000 |
Liverpool City Region | £31,200,000 |
Sheffield City Region | £30,000,000 |
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether (a) restaurants and (b) other businesses which choose to close in response to a lack of trade in tier 3 local covid alert level areas are eligible for the Local Restrictions Support Grant.
Answered by Paul Scully
The Local Restrictions Support Grant is in place to support businesses that are legally required to close in Very High Covid-19 Local Alert Level places.
Additional funding has been made available to all areas moving to Very High Alert Level in the form of a one-off grant allocation to allow enhanced business support, including £60m for Greater Manchester. This can be used by these areas to establish a local discretionary grant scheme that could provide grants to business that whilst not required to close are nonetheless severely impacted. It will be for local partners to agree the priorities and levels of grant awards to be provided.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much funding under the Local Restrictions Support Grant scheme has been provided to each local authority in a tier 3 local covid alert level area.
Answered by Paul Scully
The Local Restrictions Support Grant (LRSG) announced on 9 September provides support to businesses affected by localised restrictions to control Covid-19. Eligible businesses in very high local Covid alert level areas will receive grants of up to £3,000 per month.
We are working with impacted local authorities to ensure they receive the enhanced business support they need, and that support goes to as many businesses in scope of the LRSG scheme as possible. In Bolton, for example, we have worked closely with the Council to best calculate the amount of funding required, using business rates data and local business information.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 7 October 2020 to Question 98704 on Business: Coronavirus, how much funding has been allocated to Bolton Council through the Local Restrictions Support Grant.
Answered by Paul Scully
The Local Restrictions Support Grant (LRSG) announced on 9 September provides support to businesses closed as part of localised restrictions to control Covid-19. Grants of up to £1,500 every three weeks will be available where businesses are required to close and funding will be issued upon confirmation of a three-week closure period.
We have worked closely with Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council to best calculate the amount of funding required, using business rates data and local business information. The situation is evolving and we continue to monitor Bolton’s LRSG allocation.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the number of insolvencies of the decision not to extend the temporary provisions on wrongful trading in the Corporate Governance and Insolvency Act 2020.
Answered by Paul Scully
The wrongful trading provisions were temporarily suspended in March at the height of the pandemic when many businesses across the country were required to close. The temporary suspension gave company directors the confidence to continue trading while considering their options, giving them time to access the financial support introduced by Government. It was further extended in May to 30 June, and then again to 30 September, during the passage of the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 in Parliament.
Since the suspension was first introduced businesses have received billions in loans, tax deferrals, Business Rate reliefs, and general and sector-specific grants to support them and help save jobs, and the Government’s recently launched Winter Economy Plan has a further package of targeted measures to continue that support.
In addition, a range of temporary measures to protect businesses from insolvency have been further extended.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the effect on levels of company insolvency in each sector of the economy of the decision not to extend the provisions on wrongful trading in the Corporate Governance and Insolvency Act 2020.
Answered by Paul Scully
The wrongful trading provisions are an important protection for creditors against insolvent trading but were suspended at the peak of lockdown to support directors to continue to trade whilst accessing the financial support put in place by Government.
Since the suspension was first introduced a range of measures have been brought in by the Government to provide support for business and save jobs across all sectors of the economy. In addition, a range of temporary measures to protect businesses in all sectors from insolvency have been further extended.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the evidential basis was for not extending the wrongful trading measures in the Corporate Governance and Insolvency Act 2020.
Answered by Paul Scully
The Government engaged with a number of stakeholders in considering the extension of all the temporary provisions in the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020. The further extension of measures to protect businesses from insolvency and the additional financial support introduced by Government will continue to protect jobs and help businesses through the months ahead.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will publish the (a) number and (b) value of grant payments made to hereditaments by local authority area as at 30 September 2020.
Answered by Paul Scully
The Small Business Grants Fund (SBGF), the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grants Fund (RHLGF) and the Local Authority Discretionary Grants Fund (LADGF) were part of this government’s unprecedented package of support for business in recognition of the disruption caused by Covid-19. We published a full breakdown of SBGF and RHLGF grants distributed by each local authority following the schemes’ closure: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-grant-funding-local-authority-payments-to-small-and-medium-businesses We will publish further information on the number and value of grant payments made by local authority under the schemes in due course.
Asked by: Lucy Powell (Labour (Co-op) - Manchester Central)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses in Bolton eligible for the emergency grants scheme for areas with local covid-19 lockdown restrictions.
Answered by Paul Scully
The Local Restrictions Support Grant (LRSG) announced on 9 September provides support to businesses closed as part of localised restrictions to control Covid-19. The scheme provides businesses in the rating system with grants of either £1,000 or £1,500 and provides the local authority with an additional 5% top-up to support businesses not in the rating system and to meet other prioritised, severely impacted businesses.
We worked closely with Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council to best calculate the amount of funding required and will continue to monitor Bolton’s LRSG allocation.