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<p>As of 3 May, over 697,000 business premises have received grants across the Small
Business Grants Fund and Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grants Fund, totalling over
£8.6 billion. We do not receive management information from local authorities broken
down by sector. We have, however, published, a full breakdown of grant funding allocated
to and distributed by each local authority here: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fpublications%2Fcoronavirus-grant-funding-local-authority-payments-to-small-and-medium-businesses&data=02%7C01%7CMegan.Alexander%40beis.gov.uk%7Cc5f5fc59c2454a7cdba808d7f597d565%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C637247904779565031&sdata=uIVlm0HVWE2p4n7sORtJnYLmnzCyeJZqC99lWYpaJ0g%3D&reserved=0"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-grant-funding-local-authority-payments-to-small-and-medium-businesses</a>.</p><p>
</p><p>Government has made £12.3 billion available to businesses under the Small Business
Grants Fund and the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grants Fund. On 1 May, the Government
announced a further £617 million available to help those small businesses with high
fixed property-related costs that are not eligible for the current grant schemes.
We will be issuing Local Authority Discretionary Grants Fund guidance for local authorities
in due course. Local authorities are responsible for delivering these grants to businesses
and government is working closely with all local authorities to help deliver grants
as quickly and efficiently as possible.</p>
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