LONDON (Reuters) – Small companies in Britain have received 6.1 billion pounds of a total 12 billion pounds available in emergency grants to help them withstand the coronavirus crisis, a finance ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
Around 500,000 companies have so far received grants under the scheme, he said,
The grants were announced last month as part of a string of measures rushed out by the government in an attempt to soften the hit from the pandemic on the economy.
(Writing by William Schomberg; editing by Stephen Addison)
