Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information his Department holds in the number of people who were excluded from the extension of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme because they became employed in mid-October 2020 and their employer did not submit their payroll details before midnight on 30 October 2020.

It is not possible to provide an answer to the question in the time available.

Estimates of the number of employments eligible for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) extension will be published as part of the next statistics release on the CJRS on 28 January. This release will be available from the following GOV.UK page alongside previous releases: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-coronavirus-covid-19-statistics.

The support schemes have been designed to protect taxpayer money against error, fraud, and abuse. Where support under the CJRS is made available, it is based on information HMRC already held on the date that the scheme was announced.