Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people who are (a) clinically extremely vulnerable and (b) shielding other members of their household who are clinically extremely vulnerable who are in receipt of support through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

Applications for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) opened on Monday 20^th April. By close 3 May 2020, HMRC had received 800,000 claims representing 6.3m furloughed employments and £8bn in support.

This is a new scheme and HMRC are currently working through the analysis they will be able to provide based on the data available. HMRC will make the timescales for publication and the types of data available in due course.