Council pays out over £16m in business grants

Reigate & Banstead Borough Council has already paid out 69% of its business grants to 1,205 out of 1,750 eligible businesses in the borough – over £16 million.

The second mega-lab at Alderley Park in Cheshire has begun to test thousands of patient samples a day for coronavirus.

UK businesses driving innovation and development will be helped through the coronavirus outbreak with a £1.25 billion government support package, the Chancellor announced today.

The Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme went live today, with businesses able to claim up to £2,500 a month towards staff wages.

Response to Sunday Times Insight article

A Government spokesman said: ‘This article contains a series of falsehoods and errors and actively misrepresents the enormous amount of work which was going on in government at the earliest stages of the Coronavirus outbreak.’

The Communities Secretary on the government’s response to COVID-19 and additional funding for local government.

Our fight against this virus is happening all across the country, in every home, in every community.

Today’s data shows that:

Councils across England will receive another £1.6 billion in additional funding as they continue to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.

Councils across England will receive a further £1.6 billion to help them to deal with the immediate impacts of coronavirus 

National testing coordinator warns against unapproved antibody tests

Statement from Professor John Newton, national coordinator of the UK coronavirus (COVID-19) testing programme, warning against the purchase of unapproved antibody testing kits.

Government sets out plans to ensure bereaved families can attend funerals during pandemic

A message from the Leader of Reigate & Banstead Borough Council, Councillor Mark Brunt.

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