Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of jobs supported by the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) most recently published statistics about the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) on 17 December 2020. They can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/coronavirus-job-retention-scheme-statistics-december-2020.

The statistics report that as at 31 October, the most recent date for which figures are available, 2,399,600 employments were supported by the CJRS. This figure represents 8% of the 30,353,200 employments eligible for support.

The next release of these statistics is scheduled for publication on 28 January.