Response A1344993
Response to request for information
Reference
A1344993
Response date
22 April 2021
Request
I am writing to you to ask for information under FOI Act 2000 relating to the following coronavirus grant schemes:
- Local Restrictions Support Grants (LRSG)
- Additional Restrictions Support Grant (ARG)
- Small Business Grants Fund (SBGF) - closed August 2020
- Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Business Grants Fund (RHLGF) - closed August 2020
- Local Authority Discretionary Grants Fund (LADGF) - closed August 2020
Please provide the following information for each of the schemes above separately:
- How much money has been issued from the start of the scheme to date and to how many businesses?
- How much money has been assessed as obtained fraudulently and how many businesses have been involved?
- How much of the money identified in the answer to Q2 has been recovered to date?
- Where fraud was identified how many of those cases have been referred to the authorities to date?
- How much has been issued in error and to how many businesses? For each please explain what the error was.
- How much of the money issued in error identified in Q5 has been recovered to date?
- What policy was in place to ensure that grants were not fraudulently obtained or granted in error to businesses?
Response
- How much money has been issued from the start of the scheme to date and to how many businesses?
- How much money has been assessed as obtained fraudulently and how many businesses have been involved?
- None
- How much of the money identified in the answer to Q2 has been recovered to date?
- Not applicable
- Where fraud was identified how many of those cases have been referred to the authorities to date?
- Not applicable
- How much has been issued in error and to how many businesses? For each please explain what the error was.
- 0
- How much of the money issued in error identified in Q5 has been recovered to date?
- Not applicable
- What policy was in place to ensure that grants were not fraudulently obtained or granted in error to businesses?
- Rigorous checks in place to reduce fraud and errors.