Guidance

Business Recovery Grant: irregular payments guidance for local authorities

Business Recovery Grants (BRGs) provide support to aid the recovery of SMEs in areas that meet the eligibility criteria for individual BRG schemes.

• From: Department for Business and Trade
• Published: 16 January 2024
• Last updated: 22 August 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Business Recovery Grant: guidance for local authorities on irregular payments, returning recovered grants and referring outstanding debts to DBT

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Business Recovery Grant Annex A: form for returning funds to DBT

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Business Recovery Grant Annex B: form for local authority debt to be referred

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Details

Local authorities that satisfy the eligibility criteria for BRGs are awarded grant funding to support SMEs which have suffered severe impacts in line with individual scheme guidance.

The scheme is administered by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).

Published 16 January 2024
Last updated 22 August 2024 + show all updates

1. 22 August 2024

   Specific references to support for impact of flooding removed. Clarification added that the documents refer to any Business Recovery Grant, including those previously launched which supported businesses impacted by flooding.

2. 16 January 2024

   First published.