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<p>The Government is working closely with all local authorities to help them make
payments to businesses in scope of the Small Business Grants Fund (SBGF) and the Retail,
Hospitality and Leisure Grants Fund (RHLGF) as quickly and effectively as possible.
As of 7 June £10.22 billion has been paid out to over 832,000 eligible business properties.
On 1 May, my Rt. Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial
Strategy announced a further up to £617 million available to Local Authorities in
England to support businesses that are out of scope of the existing schemes.</p><p>Where
a local authority has funding remaining after having paid grants to all eligible businesses,
they will need to undertake a reconciliation exercise with government. We will be
providing further details of this, and timing for the delivery of remaining funding
to eligible businesses, in due course.</p>
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