Government Grants And Advice For Small Businesses In 2021
11 Jan 2021
Small Business Support Update January 12th 2021
Businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure will receive new grants to help them keep afloat until spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said. The grants will be worth up to £9,000 per property, the Treasury says. Mr Sunak told the BBC he was "committed to protecting jobs and supporting businesses".
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Business groups welcomed the new help as a good start but warned the money still wouldn't be enough to save many firms from collapse. The help is in addition to business rates relief and the furlough scheme, which has been extended until the end of April.
FSB chair Mike Cherry also said the funds would be a lifeline to many, but "do not go far enough to match the scale of the crisis that small firms are facing."
The British Beer & Pub Association described the grants as a "lifeline", but added that companies on which pubs rely, such as breweries, would also need help.
A record number of small firms could close in the next 12 months, says the Federation of Small Businesses. Without further government help to cope with the effects of the pandemic, more than a quarter of a million businesses could be lost, it said.
The FSB said it had put forward ideas to help some of those firms, which it hoped ministers would adopt. Its proposed support scheme would aim to help many self-employed workers currently excluded from aid. The FSB based its prediction on a survey of 1,400 small firms, 5% of which said they expected to close this year. If those figures were replicated across the country, some 250,000 of the UK's 5.9 million small firms could disappear, it said.
FSB national chairman Mike Cherry said: "The development of business support measures has not kept pace with intensifying restrictions.
"As a result, we risk losing hundreds of thousands of great, ultimately viable small businesses this year, at huge cost to local communities and individual livelihoods."
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