LIVE: Rishi Sunak has announced £4.6bn in grants to help firms weather the latest #lockdown.
Retail, leisure and hospitality businesses will be eligible for one-off top-up grants of up to £9,000, with a £594m discretionary fund launched for other firms telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
The one-off top-ups will be granted to closed businesses as follows:
• £4,000 for firms with a rateable value of £15,000 or under
• £6,000 for firms with a rateable value between £15,000 and £51,000
• £9,000 for firms with a rateable value of more than £51,000
If you're just logging back in, fear not; we've rounded-up some of the best @telebusiness reads from the past week below… #thread
We first wrote about there being yet more pain for retailers, with the number of people visiting shops on Christmas Eve falling by 9.4% compared to the same day last year…
.@Tim_Wallace then delivered some in-depth analysis about how Britain's economic growth is set to reach a solid rate at the end of 2020 and potentially a faster pace beyond (assuming #Brexit is done on time)…