The Business Secretary Alok Sharma has announced a discretionary fund set up to accommodate certain small businesses previously outside the scope of the business grant funds scheme. This is an additional 5% uplift to the £12.33 billion funding previously announced for the Small Business Grants Fu

Together with a number of colleagues John had raised concerns about measures to support small business during the COVID-19 crisis.  There are many small businesses in the constituency, and across the country they form a key part of our economy. 

The Government has been giving huge suport to business during the COVID-19 crisis but so far dentists and other private and mixed healthcare workers have not been eligible for the Business Rate Relief.

We are fortunate in South Oxfordshire to have access to open countryside in which to exercise, and it is good that people make use of it.

While most people are pulling together to help one another in this difficult time there are those who try to take advantge of others instead.

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is one of the biggest challenges we have faced in generations.

Many of you are understandably concerned about the ongoing situation with the coronavirus which is affecting all of us in many different ways. The situation is rapidly evolving and many people have emailed me with questions and views on how the situation should be handled.