Whether it will provide financial support to business owners who are otherwise ineligible for self-employment support due to having begun t…

We recognise the significant financial hardship that many of those who are newly self-employed have experienced over the past year as a result of being excluded from the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) which is why we have introduced two separate rounds of the Newly Self-Employed Hardship Fund. These have paid out combined grants of £6,000 in total to support the many self-employed people in Scotland who were excluded from the UK Government’s Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) by virtue of being newly self-employed.
Limits on the amount of funding made available to the Scottish Government to provide financial support to businesses means that we are unable to contemplate further direct financial support for businesses or the self-employed without additional funding from the UK Government.