Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: Quarantine

(asked on 17th June 2021) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the (a) number of businesses that did not claim for self-isolating employees on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and (b) savings were to the public purse as a result of those non-claims.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 22nd June 2021

The information requested is not available.

HM Revenue and Customs neither collect nor hold data on the reasons that eligible employers make claims through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is not to be used simply because of short-term absences from work due to sickness or self-isolation.

Where an employee is on sick leave or self-isolating as a result of coronavirus, the rules in relation to Statutory Sick Pay apply.

Conversely, an employee is eligible for CJRS if they are unable to work because they are Clinically Extremely Vulnerable or are in the equivalent highest-risk group for severe illness from coronavirus, and following the public health guidance.

These rules have been in place and clearly reflected in all versions of the guidance, since March 2020.

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