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<p>The Department is maintaining efforts to ensure businesses across the UK are ready
to leave the EU on 31 October. We continue to robustly assess the potential impact
of no-deal and are engaging widely with businesses across all sectors and meeting
regularly with business representative organisations and trade associations. HMRC
has also put into place funding for training that helps businesses to complete customs
declarations and processes and has launched a trader helpline to answer border related
questions</p><p> </p><p>The Business Readiness Fund makes up to £15M available to
support Business Representative Organisations as they help to prepare businesses for
leaving the EU on 31 October. As of 1 October, BEIS has approved 69 bids from business
representative organisations. Further applications are still in the process of being
reviewed. Applications have spanned a wide range of sectors and are from across the
UK. We continue to encourage bids until applications close on 7 October.</p><p> </p><p>In
addition, we have secured £1.3 million central funding which we are directing towards
targeted sector-specific engagement across the UK through sector teams to complement
the Business Readiness Fund and Public Information Campaign.</p>
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