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1230580

registered interest
date	02/09/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will advise local authorities to apply discretion to the definition of the retail, hospitality and leisure industry to enable them to offer support through the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund to small businesses affected by closures in those industries during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Erith and Thamesmead
tabling member printed	Abena Oppong-Asare
uin	84370
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2020 answer text <p>Small businesses occupying properties for retail, hospitality or leisure purposes were likely to be particularly affected by COVID-19 due to their reliance on customer footfall, and the fact that they were less likely than larger businesses to have sufficient cash reserves to meet their high fixed property-related costs. The Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund was intended to help small businesses in this situation. The Government provided Local Authorities with detailed information in the Expanded Retail Discount Guidance regarding which kinds of business properties could be classified as retail, hospitality or leisure properties. Local Authorities were responsible for applying this guidance correctly when making grants.</p><p> </p><p>The RHLGF, along with the other business grant schemes, closed to new applicants on 28 August. As many businesses are now able to reopen, and consumer footfall is increasing, it is right that we wind up the grant schemes.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 07/09/2020 14:18:08 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4820 label Biography information for Abena Oppong-Asare

1204476

registered interest
date	16/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses have accessed the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund since its inception, by region and local authority area; and what the total value is of grants provided under that fund to date.
tabling member constituency	Kingston and Surbiton
tabling member printed	Sir Edward Davey
uin	59678
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2020 answer text <p>As of 14<sup>th</sup> June 2020, over 844,000 business premises have received grants worth over £10.36 billion from the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund and the Small Business Grant Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Every week, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy publishes the combined figures for the number and value of grants paid out from the RHLGF and SBGF. These data are broken down by Local Authority and can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-grant-funding-local-authority-payments-to-small-and-medium-businesses" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-grant-funding-local-authority-payments-to-small-and-medium-businesses</a>.</p><p> </p><p>These data are not published on a regional basis.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 24/06/2020 10:14:55 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	188 label Biography information for Ed Davey

1202403

registered interest
date	10/06/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to extend the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund to provide additional assistance to businesses that continue to suffer significant disruption as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Gateshead
tabling member printed	Ian Mearns
uin	57955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government recognises that this is a very challenging time for businesses in a wide variety of sectors, and that retail, hospitality and leisure properties are likely to have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 crisis due to their reliance on customer footfall. That is why the Government has provided enhanced support to these sectors in the form of a twelve-month business rates holiday for all retail, hospitality and leisure properties; and via the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund for properties used for these purposes which have a rateable value below £51,000.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has also allocated up to an additional £617 million to Local Authorities to enable them to provide discretionary grants to businesses which have been excluded from the RHLGF and the Small Business Grant Fund because of the way they interact with the business rates system.</p><p>In addition, retail, hospitality and leisure businesses can benefit from other measures in the Government’s unprecedented package of support for business, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>An option to defer VAT payments by up to twelve months;</li><li>The Bounce Back Loan Scheme, which will ensure that small and micro businesses can quickly access loans of up to £50,000 which are 100 per cent guaranteed by the Government;</li><li>The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, now extended to cover all businesses including those which would be able to access commercial credit;</li><li>The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, to support businesses with their wage bills; and</li><li>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, to provide support to the self-employed.</li></ul><p> </p><p>The Government continues to review the economic situation and consider what support businesses need.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 19/06/2020 09:28:07 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4000 label Biography information for Ian Mearns

1197556

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of businesses that will be excluded from the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund due to the exclusion of the event catering industry from the Government's definition of the hospitality industry.
tabling member constituency	Ealing, Southall
tabling member printed	Mr Virendra Sharma
uin	49633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The Government does not hold this information.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises that this is a very challenging time for businesses in a wide variety of sectors. Small businesses occupying properties for retail, hospitality or leisure purposes are likely to be particularly affected by COVID-19 due to their reliance on customer footfall, and the fact that they are less likely than larger businesses to have sufficient cash reserves to meet their high fixed property-related costs. The Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund is intended to help small businesses in this situation.</p><p> </p><p>Local Authorities can choose to make discretionary grants to businesses in other sectors if they feel there is a particular local economic need. However, the priority of all the grants schemes continues to be to help the smallest businesses, and small businesses which are facing significant property-related costs and operate in sectors which have been particularly hard hit by the steep decline in customer footfall.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 02/06/2020 06:58:29 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	1604 label Biography information for Mr Virendra Sharma

1197644

registered interest
date	20/05/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the answer to the Answer of 12 May to Question 44022 on Business: Coronavirus, for what reason the amount that businesses with a rateable value of exactly £15,000 are eligibile for under the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund changed from £25,000 to £10,000 on 9 April 2020; and if he will reinstate the initial award amount eligibility from that fund as issued on 18 March 2020.
tabling member constituency	Canterbury
tabling member printed	Rosie Duffield
uin	49807
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2020 answer text <p>The eligibility thresholds for the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund have remained the same since the scheme was announced on 17<sup>th</sup> March. We have been working at pace to design grant schemes to support businesses and protect jobs throughout Covid-19. We apologise for a human error made on an early version of a Covid-19 support measures factsheet which stated that the rateable value cut-off for the £25,000 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Fund grant was £14,999. This has since been updated on 9<sup>th</sup> April. The guidance to Local Authorities has always been very clear that retail, hospitality and leisure properties with a rateable value of £15,000 or below would be eligible for a £10,000 grant under the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund.</p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 02/06/2020 06:59:30 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4616 label Biography information for Rosie Duffield

1192757

registered interest
date	04/05/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to make wholesale food suppliers eligible for the Retail, Hospitality, and Leisure Grant.
tabling member constituency	Newton Abbot
tabling member printed	Anne Marie Morris
uin	43026
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/05/2020 answer text The Government recognises that this is a very challenging time for businesses in a wide variety of sectors. Small businesses occupying properties for retail, hospitality or leisure purposes are likely to be particularly affected by Covid-19 due to their reliance on customer footfall, and the fact that they are less likely than larger businesses to have sufficient cash reserves to meet their high fixed property-related costs. The Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund is intended to help small businesses in this situation.<p> </p><p> </p>Wholesale food suppliers may be eligible for a discretionary grant from their Local Authority. On Friday 1 May, the Government announced that it would be making up to £617m of additional funding available to Local Authorities to enable them to make payments of up to £25,000 to businesses which have been excluded from the existing grants schemes because of the way they interact with the business rates system. The additional funds are aimed at small businesses with ongoing fixed property-related costs, and we are particularly asking Local Authorities to prioritise businesses in shared spaces; regular market traders; small charity properties that would meet the criteria for Small Business Rates Relief; and bed and breakfasts that pay council tax rather than business rates. Local Authorities may choose to make payments to other businesses, including wholesale food suppliers, based on local economic need. However, the priority of all the grants schemes continues to be to help the smallest businesses, and small businesses which are facing significant property-related costs and operate in sectors which have been particularly hard hit by the steep decline in customer footfall.<p> </p><p>Small businesses which are not eligible for business grants should still be able to benefit from other elements of the Government’s unprecedented package of support for business, including:</p><p> </p><ul><li>An option to defer VAT payments by up to twelve months;</li><li>The Bounce Back Loan scheme, which will ensure that small and micro businesses can quickly access loans of up to £50,000 which are 100% guaranteed by the Government;</li><li>The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme, now extended to cover all businesses including those which would be able to access commercial credit;</li><li>The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, to support businesses with their wage bill;</li><li>The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, to provide support to the self-employed.</li></ul> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 11/05/2020 07:12:48 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4249 label Biography information for Anne Marie Morris

1188424

registered interest
date	20/04/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the Government guidance entitled Covid-19 support for businesses, what plans he has to enable mobile hospitality businesses that operate from property classed as storage for business rate purposes to access the support that is available to the rest of the hospitality sector.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
tabling member printed	Emma Hardy
uin	37852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/04/2020 answer text <p>The Government has launched two grants schemes to support small businesses during this difficult time.</p><p> </p><p>• The Small Business Grant Fund provides eligible businesses with a £10,000 grant per property, for each property in receipt of Small Business Rates Relief (SBRR) or Rural Rates Relief (RRR).</p><p>• The Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant Fund provides eligible businesses with a £10,000 grant per property, for each property used for these purposes with a rateable value of £15,000 or less and which is not in receipt of SBRR or RRR. Businesses are also eligible for a £25,000 grant per property, for each property used for these purposes with a rateable value between £15,000 and £51,000.</p><p>These schemes have been designed to support the smallest businesses, and smaller businesses in some of the sectors which have been hit hardest by the measures taken to prevent the spread of Covid-19.</p><p>In order to ensure that payments can be made as quickly as possible to businesses in need, the schemes have been designed based on property classifications. So only public-facing properties used for retail, hospitality, or leisure services are eligible for the specific grants for those sectors.</p><p>This is to keep the schemes simple for Local Authorities (LAs) to deliver in order to ensure that support can reach businesses in need quickly. It would be difficult to assess whether storage units are used for retail, hospitality, or leisure services as opposed to other uses. LAs would need to create an entirely new system and to put in place appropriate anti-fraud checks. This would significantly increase LAs’ workloads at a time when they are already working under pressure to support struggling businesses as quickly as possible.</p><p> </p><p>However, small businesses which are not eligible for these schemes should be able to benefit from other measures in the Government’s unprecedented package of support for business, including:</p><p>• An option to defer VAT payments by up to twelve months;</p><p>• The Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS);</p><p>• The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS).</p><p>The Business Support website provides further information about how businesses can access the support that has been made available, who is eligible, when the schemes open and how to apply - https://www.businesssupport.gov.uk/coronavirus-business-support/</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 28/04/2020 11:15:59 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4645 label Biography information for Emma Hardy