BRC responds to HMT grants and business rates package
Responding to the HMT announcement, Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said:
“The government has made a number of unprecedented moves to help businesses in recent weeks, which are very welcome.
However, as we continue to make clear in our regular dialogue with government, hundreds of viable retail businesses that have been forced to cease trading, or seen trading significantly curtailed as part of the response to the coronavirus crisis, need urgent action to ensure that they are eligible to receive funds from recently announced government loan and grant schemes or they will be insolvent in a matter of weeks.
