Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the number of companies that received support through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme that issued dividends of £1 million or more in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22.
An estimate of the number of companies that received support through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) that issued dividends of £1 million or more in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22, and an estimate of whether any of these companies have repaid or returned support received is not available.
Data on dividends issued by companies and of claims made through the CJRS are not held together in the same system and undertaking the analysis to do the estimate requested could only be done at disproportionate cost to HMRC.