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SNP Government in u-turn over Coronavirus business support scheme

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Businesses with multiple properties will get extra support to cope with coronavirus after a u-turn by the SNP Government.Scottish Ministers rewrote their flagship relief policy following criticism it was less generous than the English scheme.In an attempt to deal with the impact of covid-19, Chancellor Rishi Sunak handed the Scottish Government £2.2bn so that grants of up to £25,000 could be provided to struggling businesses.Kate Forbes, the SNP Finance Secretary, decided to distribute the pot to a wider set of firms than simply those operating in the hospitality, tourism and retail sectors.However, the Scottish scheme was also narrower in that the grants would be allocated per business, rather than for every property owned by a company.In

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