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Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Glasgow Central

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Question for Treasury

UIN 46709, tabled on 13 May 2020

Question

Alison Thewliss
Scottish National Party
Glasgow Central
Commons

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many businesses in Glasgow Central constituency have accessed the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

Answer

Jesse Norman
Conservative
Hereford and South Herefordshire
Commons

Answered on

18 May 2020

Applications for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) opened on Monday 20 April. By close on 11 May, 935,000 employers had submitted claims to HMRC, representing 7.5m furloughed employments and £10.1bn.

This is a new scheme and HMRC are currently working through the analysis they will be able to provide based on the data available. HMRC will make the timescales for publication and the types of data available in due course.

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