PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Self-employment Income Support Scheme (1 June 2020)

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many people have (a) submitted claims to and (b) received grants from the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme, broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) parliamentary constituency.

Asked by:
Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Applications for the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) opened on 13 May 2020. By midnight 31 May 2020, 2.5 million customers had submitted claims to HMRC representing £7.2 billion.

This is a new scheme and HMRC are currently working through the analysis they will be able to provide based on the data available. HMRC will make the timescales for publication and the types of data available in due course.

Answered by:
Jesse Norman (Conservative)
9 June 2020