Dear applicant,

Thank you for your request.

Unfortunately, your request is ‘not valid’ under the Freedom of Information
(FOI) Act 2000 for the following reason(s):

For a request to be valid, the applicant must provide enough of their real name
to give anyone reading that request a reasonable indication of their identity.
This means that if the council officer processing the request cannot identify
the applicant from the name provided, the request will be invalid. Guidance
issued by the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) states that any variation
of an applicant’s title or first name combined with their surname (e.g. Mr Smith
or John Smith) will be sufficient to meet the requirements of the FOI Act.
However, a first name or surname provided in isolation, or a set of initials,
will not.

Example: A requester named Robert Jones could call themselves ‘Rob Jones’,
‘Bobby Jones’, ‘R Jones’, ‘Bob Jones’ or ‘Mr Jones’. However, they could not
just use ‘Robert’, ‘Bob’, ‘Bobby’ or ‘R.J’.

If you wish to provide a reasonable indication of your identity that meets the
requirements of a valid request under the FOI Act, we will be more than happy to
process your request.

Further information about FOI requests can be found on our website:

[1]Freedom of Information - Stockport Council

Kindest regards,
Freedom of Information Officer
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

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We've received your request

Your reference number is 101007711514.

Thanks for making a freedom of information request

What happens next

Your request will be treated under the freedom of information
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Freedom of Information Request
Reference: FOI 101007711514

Dear Applicant,

Please consider this as our formal response to your information request which
was logged under the above reference number and treated as a request made under
the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000.

Request: Information you require: Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would
like to request the following information:

1. What funding (if any) do you offer to small businesses in the local area?
2. How many grants (if any) do you offer to small businesses in the local area?
3. If funding or grants are offered, please can you provide the specific
monetary figures that are available to small businesses in the local area.
4. How many grants, or funding offers, were applied for and successfully granted
to small businesses in the calendar years 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Answer: There are no grant or funding programmes specifically for small
businesses,

but they are eligible for some other Council funding programmes. However we do
not have a way of capturing whether an applicant is a small business.

Documents held by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council may fall under the
Re-Use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015. If you receive a Council
document and you wish to use it for a new purpose, please identify the document
in question and describe how you intend to re-use it. We will aim to respond to
any re-use request within 20 working days.

You can find more information about FOI requests via the following link:

[1]Freedom of Information - Stockport Council

If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request for information,
you can ask for an internal review however, you must do so within 40 working
days from the date of this response. Any internal review will be carried out by
an officer who was not involved with your original request. To request an
internal review, please contact us by emailing [2][Stockport Council request email] or call
0161 474 4299, quoting your reference number.

Following the completion of an internal review, if you are dissatisfied with the
outcome, you can appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) via the
following contact points:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

[3]Home | ICO

0303 123 1113

Kind regards,
Freedom of Information Officer
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

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