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New GBP4.6bn In Grants For Retail, Hospitality, Leisure Firms Up To GBP9k

UK

Wires reporting the Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to announce a new one-off grant for businesses in the retail, hospitality and leisure sectors up to GBP9,000 to assist with the impact of England's new COVID-19 lockdown announced last night by PM Boris Johnson. The pot for these grants will total GBP4.6bn.

  • Reports there will also be a GBP594mn discretionary fund made available to support other affected businesses.

Further details of new support:

Source: UK Treasury

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