Rutland County Council telephone: 01572 722 577 Catmose fax: 01572 758 307 Oakham email: [email protected] Rutland web: www.rutland.gov.uk LE15 6HP

22 March 2021 284/21 - FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

Dear Sir/Madam

Your request for information has now been considered and the information requested is provided below.

Request:

1. Please advise if any Covid-related benefit payment or grant, namely Local Restrictions Support Grants (LRSG) or Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) has been disbursed by your authority to any of the following:

Albrighton and Woodland Hunt Ashford Valley Tickham Hunt Atherstone Hunt Avon Vale Foxhounds Axe Vale Hunt Badsworth and Bramham Moor Foxhounds Barlow Hunt Bedale Hunt Belvoir Hunt Berkeley Hunt Bewcastle Hunt Bicester with Whaddon Chase Hunt Bilsdale Hunt Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt Blankney Hunt Blencathra Foxhounds Border Counties Mink Hounds Border Hunt Braes of Derwent Hunt Brocklesby Foxhounds Burton Hunt Cambridgeshire Hunt with Enfield Chace Cattistock Hunt Cheriton Hunt Forest Hunt Cheshire Hunt Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray Hunt Cleveland Hunt Clifton-on-Teme Hunt College Valley and North Hunt Coniston Foxhounds Cotley Hunt

Cotswold Hunt Cotswold Vale Farmers Foxhounds Cottesmore Hunt Courtenay Tracy Hounds Crawley and Horsham Hunt Croome and West Warwickshire Foxhounds Culmstock Hunt Cumberland Farmers Hunt Cumberland Foxhounds Cury Hunt Dartmoor Hunt Derwent Hunt Devon and Minkhounds Dove Valley Mink Hounds Duke of Beaufort's Hunt Dulverton Farmers Hunt (formerly the Dulverton East Foxhounds) Dulverton West Foxhounds East Cornwall Hunt East Devon Hunt East Essex Hunt East Kent Foxhounds East Kent with West Street Hunt East Sussex and Romney Marsh Foxhounds Eastern Counties Minkhounds Eggesford Foxhounds Eskdale and Ennerdale Foxhounds Essex and Suffolk Hunt Essex Farmers and Union Hunt Essex Hunt Exmoor Foxhounds Farndale Hunt Fernie Hunt Fitzwilliam (Milton) Hunt Four Burrow Hunt Glaisdale Foxhounds Goathland and Glaisdale Hunt Goathland Foxhounds Grafton Hunt Grove and Rufford Hunt Hampshire Hunt Hampshire Minkhounds Haydon Hunt Heythrop Hunt Hunt Hursley Hambledon Hunt Hurworth Hunt Isle of Wight Foxhounds Kent and Sussex Mink Hounds Kimblewick Hunt Lamerton Hunt Ledbury Hunt Ludlow Hunt Lunesdale Foxhounds Melbreak Foxhounds Mendip Farmers Hunt Meynell and South Staffordshire Hunt Mid Devon Foxhounds Middleton Hunt Moorlands Hunt Morpeth Hunt New Forest Hounds Norfolk Mink Hounds Hunting Club North Cornwall Foxhounds North Cotswold Hunt North Herefordshire Hunt North Ledbury Hunt North Lonsdale Foxhounds North Pennine Hunt North Hunt North Staffordshire Hunt North Tyne Hunt Northamptonshire Mink Hounds Northern Counties Hunt Oakley Hunt Old Berkshire Hunt Old Surrey Burstow and West Kent Hunt Pennine Foxhounds Percy Hunt Portman Hunt Puckeridge Hunt Pytchley Hunt Quorn Hunt Radnor and West Hunt Royal Artillery Hunt Saltersgate Farmers Hunt Seavington Hunt Silverton Foxhounds Sinnington Hunt Sir Watkin Williams-Wynns Hunt (the Wynnstay) South and West Wilts Hunt South Devon Hunt South Dorset Hunt South Durham Hunt Hunt South Notts Hunt Hunt South Tetcott Hunt South Wold Hunt Southdown and Eridge Hunt Spooners and West Dartmoor Hunt Staintondale Hunt Stevenstone Hunt Suffolk Hunt Surrey Union Hunt Taunton Vale Foxhounds Tedworth Hunt Teme Valley Minkhounds Tetcott Hunt Three Counties Mink Hounds Thurlow Hunt Tiverton Foxhounds Torrington Farmers Hunt Hunt Tynedale Mink Hunt Ullswater Foxhounds United Pack Vale of White Horse Hunt Valley Mink Hounds Vine and Craven Hunt Warwickshire Hunt Wealden Mink Hounds Wensleydale Foxhounds West Norfolk Foxhounds West of Yore Hunt West Percy Hunt Foxhounds West Somerset Vale Hunt Western Hunt Wheatland Hunt Wilton Hunt Woodland Pytchley Hunt Worcestershire Hunt York and Ainsty North Hunt Zetland Hunt

Response:

The following payments have been made to The Cottesmore Hunt:

£25,000 Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant (National Lockdown 1) £2,000 Local Restrictions Support Grant (National Lockdown 2) £3,000 Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed) Addendum (National Lockdown 3) £3,143 Local Restrictions Support Grant (Closed) Addendum (National Lockdown 3) &6,000 Closed Business Lockdown Payment

To support businesses and organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic, Government tasked local authorities to administer its grants to business schemes.

The Cottesmore Hunt is one of a number of organisations in Rutland that has been awarded COVID-19 grant funding by the Government, with the intention of supporting property costs.

The eligibility criteria for awarding grants continues to be set by the Government and Rutland County Council is obliged to provide grants to any company or organisation that met that criteria.

Local authorities, like Rutland County Council, carry out a purely administrative role within this grant process. Decisions about what types of organisations are eligible for a grant and how much money they receive are taken at the national level.

We simply distribute national funding to eligible rate payers in our area, in accordance with the Government’s guidelines. No discretionary grant payments have been made.

You are free to use any documents supplied for your own use, including for non-commercial research purposes. The documents may also be used for news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for example by publishing the documents or issuing copies to the public will require the permission of the copyright owner, where copyright exists. Such a request would be considered separately in accordance with the relevant Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005 and is not automatic. Therefore, no permission is implied in the re-use of this information, until such a request to re-use it has been made and agreed, subject to any appropriate conditions. Any request to re-use the information should be made to me at the address below.

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request please contact the Data Protection Officer, Rutland County Council, Catmose, Oakham, Rutland LE15 6HP You can also complain to the Information Commissioner at:

The Information Commissioner's Office Wycliffe House, Water lane Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF Tel: 01625 545700

Yours faithfully

FOI Administrator Business Support Team Rutland County Council