Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he plans to publish further guidance for local authorities on distributing the £1 billion of support to help businesses that have been most impacted by the omicron variant, as announced by the Government on 21 December 2021.

Guidance for the Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grants and revised guidance for the Additional Restrictions Grant scheme were published on 30 December 2021, and can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-restrictions-support-grants-lrsg-and-additional-restrictions-grant-arg-guidance-for-local-authorities