Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many and what proportion of (a) taxi drivers (b) people awarded funds for the first three months of the Self Employment Income Support Scheme received a payment of (i) £100 or less, (ii) £101 to £500, (iii) £501 to £1,000 and incrementally thereafter in £500 steps to the maximum of £7,500.

Applications for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) opened on 13 May. By midnight 31 May 2020, HMRC had received 2.5m claims representing a total of £7.2bn claimed.

SEISS 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 update in due course on the types of data available and timescales for publication.