Rossendale Free Press

Council urged to dish out support to firms

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A COUNCIL has been urged to ‘act now’ to distribute £3.9m of business grant support after Ramsbottom’s MP claimed just 2.9 per cent of a government support package had been sent to struggling firms.

Bury Council was provided with £4m in November of last year by the government through the Additional Restrictio­ns Grant.

The funding was to support businesses in Bury through the pandemic period.

MP James Daly said that only £96,000 of these monies have been distribute­d meaning Bury Council has approximat­ely £3.9M in funds, which can be used to assist local businesses and traders.

Bury’s council leader, Coun Eamonn O’Brien said the council had followed the government’s own guidance on distributi­ng the fund and had only been told to distribute the money more quickly on January 7.

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