Fresh calls have been made for councils to be allowed to dole out to businesses the £1.6bn unspent from the Government’s small firms grant funds.
The calls come after the Government confirmed that local authorities should make final payments from the small business grants fund, the retail, hospitality and leisure grants fund and the discretionary grant fund by Friday August 28.
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