Additional Restrictions Grant
(asked on 1st March 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for his policies that only 13 per cent of the Additional Restrictions Grant has been paid out to eligible businesses as of 17 January 2021.
The Government is working closely with Local Authorities in England to support the implementation of business grants during the Covid-19 pandemic and monitor the distribution of grant funds.
Local Authorities are entitled to use their allocation of Additional Restrictions Grant until the end of financial year 2021/22.
The data published on GOV.UK regarding the Additional Restrictions Grant is based upon self-reporting by Local Authorities up to the 17th January 2021.
Further data will be published in due course that will set out performance figures for the current period of national restrictions.