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Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

Proceeding contribution from Jesse Norman (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 17 September 2020. It occurred during Backbench debate on Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

I have not seen the National Institute of Economic and Social Research analysis that the hon. Gentleman talks about, which is somewhat embarrassing, since I am a governor of the national institute—I shall ask it to forward that to me. I am pleased to say that it is independent of its governors and rightly so. I will certainly look at that.

The point I would make is that although the scheme as such is winding down, Government support is very much not. It continues across a very wide range of packages and includes, as colleagues rightly mentioned, the bonus. I think that that is much underestimated by colleagues—it is a very important element. That guarantees a one-off payment of £1,000 to employers for each furloughed employee they bring back to do meaningful work and earn an average of £520 a month between November and January, and who continues to be employed by the same employer as at 31 January 2021.

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Reference

680 c560 

Session

2019-21

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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