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 has been spent under the Restart Grant scheme in each (a) sector and (b) region.

The £5 billion Restart Grants scheme announced by my Rt. Hon. Friend Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer on 3 March 2021 are one-off grants to businesses in the non-essential retail, hospitality, leisure, personal care, and accommodation sectors to support businesses to reopen as covid-19 restrictions are lifted in the coming months.

The Restart scheme is still open for applications, and we are continuing to gather data on payments. All data published on Government allocations and Local Authority payments of grant schemes is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-grant-funding-local-authority-payments-to-small-and-medium-businesses.