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Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: EU Nationals

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Question for Treasury

UIN 38958, tabled on 22 April 2020

Question

Selaine Saxby
Conservative
North Devon
Commons

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to ensure that EU citizens eligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme are issued with National Insurance numbers as quickly as possible.

Answer

Jesse Norman
Conservative
Hereford and South Herefordshire
Commons

Answered on

1 May 2020

HMRC have put processes in place to allow an employer with employees that do not have a National Insurance number to submit a claim to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, in order to ensure that employees without a National Insurance number, including EU citizens, are not disadvantaged.

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