Decision details

1.     That supplementary expenditure budgets totalling £2.3 million funded by the COVID Local Government Grant be established to support the costs of the discretionary business grant.

2.     That the approach to the distribution of the discretionary business grant as detailed in the report be approved.

3.     That it be authorised, to use any underspend in Small Business Grant Fund and the Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Fund, that Government agrees to being so used, to increase the relevant budget at paragraph 1 and to be spent in line with the principles at paragraph 2 as detailed in the report.