Tourism Secretary Fergus Ewing THOUSANDS of self-catering and B&B providers feel they have been excluded from Scottish Government funding after the sector was taken off a list of top-up hospitality support. Meanwhile, the Scottish Government has been forced into a U-turn after announcing that larger B&B and self catering traders can now apply for the strategic framework business fund – set up for those who have been forced to close by law by Covid-19 retractions. But smaller traders, who cater for less than seven guests, feel they have been left out of hospitality top-up payments after a communications muddle which saw them not included on the list.