Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people were in receipt of support from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in (a) Morley and Outwood constituency and (b) West Yorkshire as at 1 July 2021.

HM Revenue and Customs publish statistics on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme regularly. The latest statistics were published on 1 July 2021 and can be found on GOV.UK.

These statistics, the latest available, report that on 31 May 2021 there were (a) 3,200 employments on furlough where the employee was resident in Morley and Outwood constituency, and (b) 72,200 employments on furlough where the employee was resident in the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Area. Employees can have more than one furloughed employment. These are provisional figures.