29 January 2021 - Submitted by Martin Fullard Submitted by Martin Fullard on 29 January 2021 The Event Supplier and Services Association (ESSA) has issued 400 Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to its members’ Local Authorities in the UK and expressing concern of reports of geographical disparities in the disbursement of Local Restriction Support Grants (LRSG) and Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG). Each authority has been asked for up-to-date figures of how much LRSG and ARG funding they have received from central government, how much of it has been dispensed, how much remains, amid concerns among ESSA’s members that there are serious disparities in how local authorities have distributed these funds.