Self-employment Income Support Scheme

(asked on 20th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment the Government has made of the number of people able to access the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme as a proportion of the self-employed workforce.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 25th January 2021

About 5 million individuals reported self-employment income for the tax year 2018/2019. Of those, 3.4 million met the criteria for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS). However, some of these businesses will not have been adversely affected by coronavirus or will have ceased trading since the tax year 2018/2019 so will not in fact have been eligible.

The first SEISS grant supported 2.7 million individuals with claims totalling £7.8 billion. A further £5.9 billion has been claimed through the second and, as of 13 December, £4.8 billion through the third SEISS grant.

The SEISS official statistics are published on GOV.UK.

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