Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make 23:59 on 31 October 2020 the RTI deadline for new applicants to the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme .
The cut-off date of 30 October allows as many people as possible to be included by going right up to the day before the announcement of the extension to the scheme.
Extending the deadline beyond 30 October would significantly increase the risk of abuse because the claim could not be confidently verified using the data after this point.