50,000 North West businesses still waiting for emergency coronavirus grants
More than 50,000 North West businesses are still waiting for emergency grants from the Government, six weeks after Chancellor Rishi Sunak launched the rescue package.
More than £1.7bn was allocated for 140,000 small businesses and those operating in the retail and leisure sectors as part of the measures to prevent an economic catastrophe following on from the Covid-19 pandemic.
But TheBusinessDesk.com can reveal that only 59% of eligible businesses in the region had received the money by the start of this week - the second-wors... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...