Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Self-Employment Income Support Scheme: Blackpool South

(asked on 23rd September 2022) - View Source
Questioner
Scott Benton Portrait
Scott Benton
(Independent - Blackpool South)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an estimate of the costs to the public purse of the (a) Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and (b) Self-Employment Income Support Scheme for claims made in Blackpool South constituency.

Answered by
Richard Fuller Portrait
Richard Fuller
This question was answered on 11th October 2022

HMRC published statistics on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) and Self Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmrc-coronavirus-covid-19-statistics.

For the CJRS, the total value of claims is not available for individual constituencies. By the end of the scheme, a total of 15,500 employments benefitted from CJRS in the Blackpool South constituency.

For the SEISS, 13,700 claims were made at a cost of £30,500,000 in the Blackpool South constituency.
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