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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a new range of financial measures to help support retail, hospitality and leisure businesses through the National Lockdown.
Licensing|05 January 2021
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Following the announcement of a third national lockdown by the Government on 04 January, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a new range of financial measures to help support businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors and protect jobs through the tighter lockdown restrictions.
This follows the Prime Minister’s announcement last night that these businesses will be closed until at least February half-term in order to help control the virus, and, together with the wide range of existing support, provides them with certainty through the spring period.
It is expected that over 600,000 businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors will be supported through one-off-top-grants worth £4bn in total across all nations of the UK.
The one-off top-ups will be granted to closed businesses as follows:
A further £594m discretionary fund will also be made available to Local Authorities and devolved administrations to support other impacted businesses that are not eligible for the new grants.
This comes in addition to £1.1bn further discretionary grant funding for Local Authorities, Local Restriction Support Grants worth up to £3,000 a month and an extension of the furlough scheme.
Business support is a devolved policy and therefore the responsibility of the devolved administrations, which will receive additional funding as a result of these announcements in the usual manner:
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