Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many (a) people and (b) women have received support from the Self Employment Income Support Scheme.
By 31 July 2020, 2,604,000 individuals had claimed the first SEISS grant and 759,000 (29 per cent) of these were women.
By 31 August 2020, 2,019,000 individuals had claimed the second SEISS grant and 580,000 (29 per cent) of these were women.
These figures were taken from the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme statistics published on 21 August and 18 September respectively.