Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

(asked on 22nd February 2022) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether any companies that issued dividends of £1 million or more in (a) 2019-20, (b) 2020-21 and (c) 2021-22 have repaid or returned support received through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.


Answered by
Lucy Frazer Portrait
Lucy Frazer
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
This question was answered on 1st March 2022

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.

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