CITB and CITB Northern Ireland: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

(asked on 8th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 20221 to Question 145080 on CITB and CITB Northern Ireland: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, when HMRC's guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme that organisations can use the scheme if they are not fully funded by public grants and they should contact their sponsor department or respective administration for further guidance, came into force.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 11th February 2021

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) guidance on employers of the public sector was updated on 12 June 2020 as follows:

If you have staff costs that are publicly funded (even if you’re not in the public sector), you should use that money to continue paying your staff, and not furlough your staff.

Organisations can use the scheme if they are not fully funded by public grants and they should contact their sponsor department or respective administration for further guidance.

Prior to that date, the guidance that stated:

Where employers receive public funding for staff costs, and that funding is continuing, we expect employers to use that money to continue to pay staff in the usual fashion – and correspondingly not furlough them. This also applies to non-public sector employers who receive public funding for staff costs.

Organisations who are receiving public funding specifically to provide services necessary to respond to COVID-19 are not expected to furlough staff.

In a small number of cases, for example where organisations are not primarily funded by the government and whose staff cannot be redeployed to assist with the coronavirus response, the scheme may be appropriate for some staff.

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