Finance Minister John O’Dowd has announced the continuation of the Small Business Rate Relief, Back in Business and rural ATMs exemption schemes for the 2025/26 year. Speaking after the Assembly ...

Aftab Baig, 47, of Paisley Road West, Glasgow, made fraudulent small business grant claims from Leeds City Council during the ... the details to apply for rates relief amounting to £710,000 ...

Leeds Crown Court heard Baig and others he was working with contacted Leeds City Council in May 2020 ... the details to apply for rates relief from the small business grant fund, a scheme set ...