UK Shared Prosperity Funding
Annex D - Subsidy Control
Pembrokeshire Sustainable Communities Fund is being operated under UK Subsidy Rules.
Each application will be assessed to establish whether the support amounts to a subsidy under the UK Subsidy Rules. All applicants will be required to answer the following 4 questions.
If your answer to all 4 of the following questions is ‘yes’, the assistance is a subsidy. If one or more of your answers are ‘no’, it is not a subsidy. If you are unsure, more detail is provided in the statutory guidance.
Applicants are required to provide a rationale to their assessment in Section 15 of the application form.
Is the financial assistance given, directly or indirectly, from public resources by a public authority?
‘Public authority’ includes any entity which exercises functions of a public nature. This includes public authorities at any level of central, devolved, regional or local government and non-governmental bodies that are performing a public function.
‘Public resources’ include public funds that are administered by the UK government, the devolved governments, or local authorities, whether they are given directly, through public bodies (such as agencies), or through private bodies.
YES/NO
Does the financial assistance confer an economic advantage on one or more enterprises?
The recipient must be an ‘enterprise’: any entity engaged in an economic activity, which means offering goods and services on a market. The financial assistance must confer an economic advantage, meaning that it is provided on favourable terms. Financial assistance will not confer an economic advantage if it could reasonably be considered to have been obtained on the same terms on the market.
YES/NO
Is the financial assistance specific? That is, has the economic advantage been provided to one (or more than one) enterprise, but not to others?
This covers financial assistance that is provided to specific beneficiaries determined on a discretionary basis by the government, as well as assistance that benefits (directly or indirectly) only enterprises in a particular sector, industry or area, or with certain characteristics.
YES/NO
Will the financial assistance have, or is it capable of having, an effect on competition or investment within the UK, or trade or investment between the UK and another country or territory?
YES/NO
Where there is a subsidy, we will work with you to ensure that any support is compliant with the public subsidy rules.