Useful links

Business support packages: latest information & updates

The Coronavirus Business Support Hub is now available at gov.uk/business-support.

Funding and support

• New financial support for the High Streets
• Financial support for businesses
• Claim for your employee’s wages through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
• Apply for the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme
• Defer your VAT payments
• Prevent your business from being evicted
• Government Start up Loans

Self-employed people and sole traders

• Claim a grant through the Self-employment Income Support Scheme
• Self-employment and Universal Credit
• If you cannot pay your tax bill on time
• Carry out work in people’s homes safely (tradespeople)
• Drivers’ hours rules relaxations
• Negotiate a mortgage payment holiday

Your responsibilities as an employer

• What you need to do and how to keep your employees safe
• Claim for your employee’s wages through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
• Statutory Sick Pay (SSP): employer guide
• Claim back Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
• Find out what to do if your employee needs time off to look after dependants
• Which expenses are taxable if your employees work from home
• Apprenticeships: how they can continue
• Guidance for Tier 2, 4 and 5 visa sponsors of people affected by coronavirus

Managing your business during coronavirus

• 15 June 2020 – New guidance for all non-essential shops to help open
• Health and Safety Executive – Risk Assessments and templates
• Cleaning your workplace safely
• Handwashing advice posters
• Rules that have been relaxed to help businesses during the coronavirus pandemic
• Construction sites and safe working
• Farmers, landowners and rural businesses
• Food businesses
• Freight transport businesses
• Medical and healthcare industry
• Shipping and sea ports businesses
• Supported accommodation, residential care and home care
• Transport businesses

Business closures

• Businesses that must close
• If you’re staying open for business: safe working guidance
• Closing holiday accommodation to temporary residents

Coronavirus Business Support Blog

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have created the Coronavirus Business Support Blog to help business get the support they need to help with the impact of coronavirus.

The latest Government information on Coronavirus can be found here, where you can also sign up for email updates for when any coronavirus information is changed on the GOV.UK website.

The Department of Health and Social Care’s Twitter feed also provides accurate information about Coronavirus.

For the latest TfL response to Coronavirus, visit this page.