To approve a scheme to determine and make Business Rate relief awards under the government’s Discretionary COVID-19 Additional Relief Fund Scheme (CARF) in accordance with Government guidance. The scheme is targeting businesses 2021/2022 net rates liability and will be applied to ratepayers’ business rate accounts as a rates relief (not grant payment) based on a fixed percentage rate of their 2021/22 charge. This will help ensure maximum coverage of the relief available.