Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate he has made of the number of people who will be eligible to receive 80 per cent of their salaries under the terms of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme during the covid-19 outbreak.
Any employer using a UK PAYE scheme can access the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme provided they meet the other eligibility criteria.
As of January 2020, there were about 29.2 million employees being paid through a PAYE scheme.