Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

(asked on 27th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the data published by HMRC on employers who have claimed through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, how many employers (a) have made a successful application to have their details withheld, (b) have a pending application to have their details withheld and (c) paid back the whole grant before the list was produced.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 1st February 2021

HMRC published a list of some 743,000 employers that claimed through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in respect of December claim periods on 26 January 2021. Employers can ask for their details to be withheld if they can show that publication would lead to the threat of violence or intimidation toward the employer or other specified associated persons.

Before this date HMRC received 55 applications from employers to have their names withheld.

17 of these applications were accepted and will not be published. Two applications were rejected and 36 were pending. These employers were removed from the list before publication pending resolution of their applications.

To date no employer that has applied to have their details removed from the list has subsequently chosen to pay back their claim.

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