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date	29/04/2020
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 and Small Business Grants Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will amend the Small Business Grant and Leisure, Hospitality and Retail Grant rules to allow local authorities greater discretion in supporting local businesses consistent with the purpose of those grant schemes.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	41601
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/05/2020 answer text <p>As of 1<sup>st</sup> May, Government has provided up to an additional £617m for Local Authorities in England to create a Discretionary Grants Fund, in order to help those small businesses which are excluded from the current grants schemes due to the way they interact with the business rates system.</p><p> </p><p>Local Authorities are responsible for defining precise eligibility for this funding in their areas. And businesses will need to apply to their Local Authority in order to receive grants – each LA will need time to create their own process.</p><p> </p><p>However, it is our intention that the following businesses should be considered as a priority for these funds:</p><ul><li>Businesses in shared offices;</li><li>Regular market traders who do not have their own business rates assessment;</li><li>B&amp;Bs which pay Council Tax instead of business rates; and</li><li>Charity properties in receipt of charitable business rates relief which would otherwise have been eligible for Small Business Rates Relief or Rural Rate Relief.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency Saffron Walden answering member printed Kemi Badenoch question first answered 04/05/2020 14:20:09 answering member 4597 label Biography information for Kemi Badenoch
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1182198

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date	03/03/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Personal Income
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2020 to Question 19979 on Personal Income, if he will make an estimate the cost to the public purse of an increase in the nationally mandated rate by the rate of inflation.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	24446
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2020 answer text <p>DHSC hold policy responsibility for social care and review the social care allowances, including the Minimum Income Guarantee, annually.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 09/03/2020 17:15:04 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild

1179951

registered interest
date	24/02/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Income Support: Uprating
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the cost to the public purse is of increasing the Minimum Income Guarantee for people receiving local authority social care other than in a care home in line with inflation in the financial year 2020-2021.
tabling member constituency	North West Norfolk
tabling member printed	James Wild
uin	19979
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>HM Treasury has not made an assessment of the cost to the public purse of this proposal. It is for Local Authorities to set Minimum Income Guarantee rates in their area, subject to nationally mandated floors. At the 2019 Spending Round we gave LAs access to up to an additional £1.5bn for social care, on top of existing grants.</p> answering member constituency North East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Steve Barclay question first answered 27/02/2020 13:37:59 answering member 4095 label Biography information for Steve Barclay
tabling member	4787 label Biography information for James Wild