Asked by: Paul Holmes (Conservative - Eastleigh)
Question to the HM Treasury:
What fiscal steps his Department is taking to help small and medium-sized businesses recover from the covid-19 pandemic.
Answered by John Glen - Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
Throughout the pandemic, the Government has sought to protect people’s jobs and livelihoods while also supporting businesses of all sizes across the UK. We put in place an economic support package totaling £352 billion through the furlough and self-employed income support schemes, as well as support for businesses of all sizes through grants and loans, business rates and VAT relief, and a commercial rents moratorium.
We want to help small businesses across the UK to scale and grow as they recover from the pandemic. At Budget, we announced Help to Grow: Digital and Management. Help to Grow: Digital provides a new online platform and voucher to support SMEs to adopt software which could help them save time and money and grow faster. Help to Grow: Management offers a new, world-leading management skills training programme to upskill 30,000 small businesses across the UK over three years, to help boost their business’s performance, resilience, and long-term growth through practical leadership and management training.
Asked by: Paul Holmes (Conservative - Eastleigh)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of limited companies that (a) operate an annual payroll for the tax year 2019-2020 and (b) qualify for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
Answered by Jesse Norman
No such estimates have been made.Asked by: Paul Holmes (Conservative - Eastleigh)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of limited companies that operate an annual payroll system that made an RTI notification of payment to HMRC after 20 March 2020.
Answered by Jesse Norman
No such estimates have been made.