Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

(asked on 19th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the furlough scheme on (1) relationships between employers and employees, and (2) the number of older people leaving the workforce; and in any such assessment, what links they have found between these factors.


Answered by
Baroness Penn Portrait
Baroness Penn
Minister on Leave (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State)
This question was answered on 5th January 2023

The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme protected millions of UK jobs at a time of unprecedented economic uncertainty.

His Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) and His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) jointly published an interim evaluation in September 2022, looking at the scheme between March and October 2020. A final evaluation, covering the full duration of the scheme and a Value for Money assessment, will be published in 2023.

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