PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Small Businesses: Coronavirus (5 March 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if the Government will offer financial support to SMEs that become insolvent following payment of statutory sick pay relating to the covid-19 outbreak.

Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)

The Government will support small and medium enterprises and individual employers to cope with the extra costs of paying COVID-19-related Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). Eligible SSP costs will be refunded for two weeks per employee from the day on which regulations extending SSP to self-isolators come into force. This will provide 2 million businesses with support worth up to £2 billion to cover the costs of large-scale sick leave.

Answered by:
Nadhim Zahawi (Conservative)
13 March 2020