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<p>The Restart Grants announced by the 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 relaxed. Non-essential retail businesses, such as travel agencies,
are able to receive Restart Grants of up to £6,000.</p><p> </p><p>All support is available
through Local Authorities in England, as they administer all grant funding and take
decisions on eligibility and the value of grant to be paid. The Government is working
closely with Local Authorities to ensure that funding can get to the right places
as quickly as practicable.</p><p> </p><p>The main service principle will ultimately
determine which threshold of Restart funding a business receives; this is based on
what constitutes fifty per cent or more of the activity of the business in question.
Businesses will need to declare their main service.</p><p> </p><p>Local Authorities
will need to exercise their reasonable judgement to determine whether or not a business
is eligible for a grant, and under which funding threshold, and be satisfied that
they have taken reasonable and practicable steps to pay eligible businesses, and to
pay them the correct amount.</p><p> </p><p>Further guidance can be found here: <a
href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Flocal-restrictions-support-grants-lrsg-and-additional-restrictions-grant-arg-guidance-for-local-authorities&data=04%7C01%7CAmanda.Thomas%40beis.gov.uk%7C8b47e364124e4103b31908d925b1601f%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637582266006299520%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=3MDKKlbYSDLZq8g5loNouvIo%2BQXzxU9Cj%2BPNWuATs1M%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-restrictions-support-grants-lrsg-and-additional-restrictions-grant-arg-guidance-for-local-authorities</a>.</p>
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