Business Ventilation Fund: FOI release

Information requested

All the information you have on a) what type of businesses were provided funds through the Business Ventilation fund to undercut or raise non-fire doors and b) how much was provided to each business to carry out this work.

Response

In response to part a) of your Freedom of Information request, please see below a table which displays information on the type of businesses that were provided with funding to undercut or raise non-fire doors:

Sector	Number of Awards	Value of Awards
cafes	1	£300.00
close contact services	21	£8,400.00
community, function and multi-purpose event venues (including wedding venues)	1	£300.00
day care of children services	1	£600.00
essential retail	1	£600.00
hotels	1	£450.00
indoor soft play/role centre	3	£2,250.00
licensed sport and social clubs	1	£900.00
nightclubs	1	£300.00
non-essential retail	6	£2,850.00
offices	1	£300.00
places of worship	1	£300.00
restaurants and licensed cafes	3	£1,650.00
Total	42	£19,200.00

In response to part b) of your Freedom of Information request, businesses were able to claim up to £150 for each non-fire door that was undercut or raised. The average award per claim for this work was £457.

Businesses were able to claim up to £2500 per premise under the Business Ventilation Fund to improve their ventilation, and help reduce the spread of COVID-19.

Statistics on the Business Ventilation Fund were published on 8 June 2022. This provided a summary of applications, awards and expenditure for the Business Ventilation Fund, including breakdowns by sector and business characteristics.

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