national insurance attributions to support recruitmentlj national insurance attributions to support recruitmentthink that tax cuts are certainly an option. anything that supports job creation and hiring come they already have the job retention bonus. but you also have to look at other ways of supporting the economy. the eat out to help out scheme has been successful relatively according to official figures but the easiest way to get money into people's pockets is to increase universal credit payments for instance. which go to lower and middle income earners who are far more likely to spend rather than save. we have seen during a pandemic isa than save. we have seen during a pandemic is a lot of high income households saving money and what we need right now if you're going to generate growth is for them to spend it. so there are a few challenges facing the economy and of course the big threat is the second wave of covid—19 because what we know is pandemics are back to the economy notjust because of the lockdowns and the requirement to stop the virus spread but also because of the hit that is dea

employers will only be asked to pay national insurance and employer pension contributions, which forge claim, account for just 5% of total employment costs. by september, employers will have had the opportunity to make any necessary changes to the workplaces and business practices. only then, in the final two months of this eight month scheme, will we ask employers to start paying towards the wages of people. in september, taxpayers will pay 70% of the furlough ground with employers contributing 10%. in october, taxpayers will pay 60% and employers will contribute 10%. then after eight months, of this extraordinary intervention of the government stepping in to help pay wages, the scheme will close. the biggest request i have heard from businesses, large and small, right across our country, is to have the flexibility to decide what is right for them. so, to protectjobs, and help businesses decide how quickly to bring their workforce back, we are introducing a new, more flexible furlough. this is a critical part of our plan to kick—start the economy. the financial security of the furlo

week the cost to business will be about 25% of the wage bill and they will also have to pay national insuranceontributions on top of that. now, what i am hearing from business groups this evening and unions is there is some concern that this could lead tojob there is some concern that this could lead to job losses because in august when they will be expected to pay, they may not be up and running as they were. but the government is ina as they were. but the government is in a difficult position. it has got to unwind the scheme gently aware of the cost of the public purse without creating any sort of cliff edge that

congress said no to national health insurance and yes to spending lots of taxpayer money to build more hospitals through an act and to fund medical research through the national institutes of health. all this funding would enable medical scientists to innovate, hospitals to provide more care and create a health care system that the united states could be proud of. in the midst of the cold war, democrats and republicans alike bought into this privatized approach. but there was some flaws in this free enterprise approach that you don't need an advanced degree in economics to understand. in a consumer-driven economy, consumer choice is supposed to drive competition that holds down prices and rewards excellence. but the mechanisms that allow consumers leverage in the marketplace do not work well in health care. medicine embodies a fundamentally asymmetrical relationship. when it comes to the most effective treatments the expensive ones that could save your life the doctor has to order them for you. i cannot walk into a hospital and say, hook me up to an i.v. medicine's professional ethics

wages, up, national insurance, cut, the tampon tax, abolished.n, beer duty, frozen, wine and cider duty, frozen, fuel duty, frozen. we promised to cut taxes and the cost of living, and we got it done. hear, hear! he announced £22 billion pounds a year for research and development, a new plastic packaging tax and money to tackle flooding and remove combustible cladding. there'd be £50 million to fix potholes and more money for broadband, railways and roads. today, i'm announcing the biggest ever investment in strategic roads and motorway. over £27 billion of tarmac. that will pay for work on over 20 connections to ports and airports, over 100 junctions, and over 4000 miles of road. and he finished with this. this is the budget of a government that gets things done. creating jobs, cutting taxes, and keeping the cost of living low, investing in our nhs, investing in or public services, investing in ideas backing business, protecting our environment, building roads, building railways, building colleges, building houses, building our union. a budget t

two—thirds of tax revenues come from just national insurance, income tax and vat, so i would expect —n those taxes, simply because that's where significant amounts of income comes from. pauljohnson and other experts suggested the government should consider widening the range of things on which tax is paid. i think it would be beneficial to try and think about broadening the tax base, because if we don't and simply rely on increases in rates, then that will increase the distortions that currently exist in the system. but doing that in the past has proved quite difficult. if you look back to the attempt in 2012 to charge vat on a slightly broader range of products, including pasties, that obviously created serious difficulties... you're not suggesting a pasty tax would get us out of the fiscal hole we're in? i'm assuming that's a hell of a lot of pasties! precisely, and i think that example probably shows the difficulty in doing something small, because you can't tell a big narrative about why is it important to tax pasties and not something else, so i think broadening the base would ne

in reverse national insurance approach for jobs?insurance approach forjobs? in otherwords, rather than charging 13 or 14% to employers, putting money back the other way, which i know would be colossally expensive but equally highly targeted on preserving employment. what i can say is we're looking at all potential measures to meet the objectives that we have set. which is to abide cash flow to businesses and fundamentally to train preserve employment in the economy but there's a range of different ways to do that. and also need to provide financial security to people as well. as i said yesterday in the statement, what we need to do is make sure that whatever delivery mechanism we choose is when it will be able to be used very quickly because time is of the essence and also be as targeted as possible of acknowledging that it's not going to be perfectly targeted in the circumstances and we have to acknowledge that but obviously it will be better for it to be targeted where possible. some of the tax levers that you mentioned, the benef

employers will need to play —— pay national insurance.lay —— pay national insurance. anotherform of support for businesses forced to close is a grant which can be up to £3,000 over the month. anotherform of support is an extension of the mortgage holiday for home owners facing hardship. we haven't had any fresh support for self—employed people. we knew there would be further winter grants for them if they were eligible, but that was set to be 40% of profits over three months. there are calls for that to be boosted as well. katy austin, thank you. transport for london — which runs the city's buses and tube trains — has agreed a deal with the government for a further £1.8 billion of emergency funding. tfl has faced a big fall in fare—paying passengers since the start of the pandemic. london mayor sadiq khan said the agreement "wasn't ideal" but would avoid measures such as expanding the congestion charge zone or ending free travel for under—18s. and if you would like to know more about the new restrictions and what they mean for you, you ca

fdr abandoned national health insurance to get social security enacted. every two or three years, she would bring it up again and say is it time now to get national health insurance. and each time someone would tell her no, no. too much of a hot potato. we are not going to touch that one of. and her very last communications with fdr were please don't forget national health insurance. [applause] >> thank you so much for your work on her. i am deeply grateful to you for having done that. as a feminist, it is a minor suggestion that i am sensitive to the working men and would invite you to say working men and women. >> but with that aside i wonder if you could talk a bit about what is her childhood might have foretold. this sympathy to the working people and to those who are kind of left out. >> right. frances perkins was a very devout christian. >> she was an episcopalian. and she had enormously deep empathy for the human condition. she was interested in the plight of immigrants. she was interested in the plight of workers. she often said that she felt peopl

iam increasing, injust four weeks' time, the national insurance threshold from £8,632 up to £9,500. servatives, the real workers party. i can also confirm that now we have left the eu that i will abolish the tampon tax. from january next year there will be no vat whatsoever on women's sanitary products and i congratulate all members and right honourable members who campaign for this, including the former memberfor who campaign for this, including the former member for dewsbury who led the charge. now let me turn to duties. scotch whisky is a crucial industry and our largest food and drink exports. my scottish conservative colleagues, including my honourable friend the member for moray, have highlighted me the impact that the recent us tariffs are having. we will continue to lobby the us government to remove these harmful tariffs. but in the meantime, i'm announcing today £1 million of support to promote scottish food and drink overseas and £10 million of new research and development funding to help distilleries go green. and to further support the industry i can also announce that th

we cut national insurance. they would hike taxes and keep people in welfare. been two years since the wind rush scandal exposed wrongful detention and deportation of commonwealth citizens. but we wait for the much delayed publication of the lessons learned, the government plans to deport 50 people to jamaica charter flight next week. well the prime minister immediately suspend the fully until the lesson learned is published? whole house will understand the people of this country will think it right to sandbag foreign national offenders. -- right to send back foreign national offenders. >> the terrorist incident last week reminds us the rule of law remains a fundamental foundation of our democratic constitution. the explosion of traditional review and judicial activism have led to a litigiousness in our society and distorted questions which ought to remain exclusively political. how will my right honorable friend and sure parliament remains the sovereign and legitimate source of low as we take back control? friend is able distinguished lawyer. she has right to

employers will only be asked to pay national insurance and employer pension contributions which, foremployers would have had the opportunity to make any necessary changes to their workplaces and business practices. only then, in the final two months of this eight month scheme will be ask employers to start paying towards peoples wages. in september taxpayers will pay 70% of the furlough ground with employers contributing 10%. in october taxpayers will pay 60% and employers will contribute 20%. then, after eight months of this extraordinary intervention of the government stepping in to help pay peoples wages the scheme will close. the chancellor rishi sunak talking about the changes he will make to hisjob retention about the changes he will make to his job retention scheme. about the changes he will make to hisjob retention scheme. there was a lot of detail in what he announced this afternoon so let's go through some of it. first the chancellor announced the daily death figures. a further 324 people have died with covid—19 in the past day. which ta kes covid—19 in the past day. which

to get national health insurance? and each time someone with tyler, no, too much of a hot potato, we're not gonna touch that one now. and her very last communications with fdr were please don't forget, national health insurance. [applause] thank you so much for your work, on here, i think it's grateful to you for having done that. as a feminist, a minor suggestion, i'm sending to the working man and would invite you to say working men and women, but that aside. i wonder if you could talk a little bit about what in her childhood, we foretold this deep sympathy to the working people, and to those who were kind of left out? >> right. frances perkins was a very devout christian, she was an episcopalian. and she had enormously deep empathy for the human condition. she was interested in the plight of immigrants, she was interested in the plight of workers, she often said that she felt peoples pain. she became fascinated in the american economy, she studied business. she was very interested in businessman, and how they -- bus

have two things, additional measures so things like holidays and business rates, vat, employs national insurancewelcome. at the same time, things that were and as such are not up and running, a loan scheme from the british business bank which is government owned, it has been announced but it's not available yet. so just accelerating that are making the stuff out of the door so businesses can get it now. should the government instead of suggesting actually be making decisions? because then insurance policies would kick in, how much is that playing into it? the message last night from pubs, restaurant and theatre's etc is very clear, they needed the firm rule on closing. because then they have ways of compensation. absolutely. because if theatres are close to several months, that could cause them to go under if they have no financial assistance. absolutely, we are looking at the situation if lots of businesses are closed for a substantial amount of time, their ability to survive, if they don't get assistance, is really in doubt. easter holidays coming up, no demand from the government he had to pu

wages up, national insurance cut, the tampon tax abolished, spirit duty frozen, beer duty frozen, wineozen, we promised a cut tax in the cost—of—living and we got it done. he announced £22 billion a year for research and development — a new plastic packaging tax, money to tackle flooding and remove combustible cladding. there'd be 50 million pounds to fix potholes and more money for broadband, railways and roads. and he finished with this. building roads, building railways, building colleges, building houses, building our union. a budget that delivers on our promises, a people's budget from the people's government and i commend it to this house. cheering. jeremy corbyn said the budget didn't "come close" to delivering on the government's election promises to working—class communities. the government's boast of the biggest investment since the 1950s is frankly a sleight—of— hand. it is in fact only the biggest since they've began their slash and burn assault on our services, economic infrastructure and living standards in 2010. and having ruthlessly forced down the living standards and

employers will have to contribute towards pensions and national insurance from august.r, they will need to pay 10% of wages rising to around 20%, before the scheme runs out at the end of october. the programme currently supports more than 8.5 million workers, with the chancellor also pledging to extend support for the 2.5 million self—employed who now receive grants through to august. the estimated cost of both schemes stands in the region of £100 billion. 0ur economics editor faisal islam has the latest. when the pubs don't open, neither do the brewers, and so the government's job scheme has helped hugely keep 8.5 million workers on payrolls, on tap effectively, including here at wild card breweries. but any change to that generosity might push some over the edge. it wouldn't be viable for us for the furlough scheme to diminish and us to contribute more if we don't have clarity as to what is going on because at the end of the day, if a bar is closed and there is no money coming in, how are you supposed to financially contribute to that scheme? that is simply going to m

powers over tax allowances, and exemptions and national insurance are reserved to the uk government, thing and ensure that this festive gift of goodwill is not clawed back by hmrc? mr speaker, as the honourable lady should know, the income tax on these payments is actually paid to scotland, not to westminster, and the scottish government has the power and funding to gross up the payment if it wishes. for the uk government, we've provided over £82 billion of extra funding for the scottish government this year to support people, businesses and public services. contrary to the impression given a few moments ago, it is only the united kingdom government that can exempt bonus payments to scottish key workers from tax and national insurance under schedule five of the 1998 scotland act. and if it chooses not to do so, then the treasury will get a windfall with these payments with the consequent reduction in the scottish block grant. so i ask again, will the chancellor allow scottish key workers to keep the full value of the bonus that they are being given by the scottish government? well, f

big central taxes that the government relies on, and that's are why there is speculation on national insurancepeople and the opposition have to confront. finally, to an issue close to the heart of the discussion — just when will hairdressers reopen? when can the house to expect an update so that hairdressers, hotels and other hospitality businesses can adequately prepare to reopen with social distancing measures in place? speaker: leader of the house. mr deputy speaker, when i was a child, i remember there being a song — "i'll be your long—haired lover from liverpool'. i have never aimed in my whole career to ended up looking like the long—haired lover from liverpool, but i fear i am heading that direction. i have never had long hair, and i'm beginning to wonder whether i ought to ask nanny if she can find a pudding bowl and put it on and see if something can be done as an emergency measure. jacob rees—mogg, who, after a tough week in the commons, might want to think carefully about who he lets loose with the scissors! and that's it from me for now. but dojoin me on bbc parliament on monday ni

it isa national insurance contributions.urlough ina more is a no—brainer to support furlough in a more generous way. is a no—brainer to support furlough in a more generous way. if you don't mind hanging on for one moment if you can. i am joined by glen sanderson, from leeds county council. have you had contact with officials over the weekend? yes, we have had contact and probably, no, i don't agree with what is potentially planned for northumberland. it is a huge rural area. we joined planned for northumberland. it is a huge ruralarea. wejoined in planned for northumberland. it is a huge rural area. we joined in with other local authority leaders some weeks ago to bring in some additional restrictions, which was the right thing to do. but i think we are at the stage now where we have to consider very carefully our position, and i personally do not think that the argument is there to bring ina think that the argument is there to bring in a much tougher restrictions, mainly because we had to take people with us. we have to put

data with the national health insurance id ca rd national health insurance id card with the travelling from china, particularly wuhan, that when they see the data, the data will be alerted that this person has been to china to begin to ask more questions about symptoms and begin to activate a more aggressive screening strategy. that is one of the things they did immediately. the other thing that they did was to use mobile technology. so because there is a need to triage a large number of passengers being —— in airports and other ports, they had a qr code where you just kind of scanned the qr code and it takes you to an online website where you could enter your travel information, whether you have any symptoms, and if you fall into the high readiness —— high risk category which means you travelled to a level three alert area, they triage you to get more detailed questioning and then those travellers will be quarantined for 14 days. if you didn't and you had no symptoms, you belong to the low risk category and you could just get out of customs relatively quickly so they contro

income tax and national insurance was down, corporation tax reve nu es insurance was down, corporationons. in the same month, huge rises in spending, £14 billion spent paying the wages of millions of workers under thejobs paying the wages of millions of workers under the jobs retention scheme. £7 billion extra in public spending, mainly health, things like buying protective equipment. 1 billion extra on benefits and universal credit. add all of that together, and annual public borrowing is heading above £300 billion. that's15% of the value of the entire economy, not seen in peacetime since the end of the second world war. so debts are mounting like never before but the cost of funding them also tumbling like never before. at one point this week the debt management office, paying tomorrow rather than paying to borrow. it will not last forever but the government has spaced the delay, taking the toughest tax and spend decisions. a plane with 99 people on board has crashed into a residential area in the pakistani city of karachi, minutes before it was due to land. the airbus a320 was enrou

they pay corporation tax, business rates, and wages to staff mean income tax and national insurance.emic, just online orders. instead of adding to the treasury coffers, many staff wages have been paid by the taxpayer. times this by a few million and you get massive and historic levels of public borrowing. here at the treasury, the money coming in is slumping, the spending going out is surging. it always happens during a recession but never quite like this. last month, the difference between the two, borrowing or the deficit, was at £62 billion for april, a record — and more in one month than had been planned at the budget for the entire year. but that doesn't include everything. the entire cash requirement of government was £88 billion in april — again, a record. and you can see why by looking at how taxes coming in have fallen off a cliff. vat receipts were down on last april, partly due to a policy of delaying payments. income tax and national insurance was down, corporation tax revenues and stamp duty also down billions. in the same month, huge rises in spending — £14 billion spen

still pay 70% of wages, but employers will now have to find the other 10%, as well as paying national insuranceon contributions. from next month, the government will only pay up to 60% of wages, while employers will be putting up the other 20% before the scheme stops altogether at the end of that month. and with business far from usual, economists and unions are warning that lay—offs could accelerate, with unemployment reaching rates not seen since the 1980s. it's too soon to turn off the tap. we need a plan forjobs and that working our way out of this crisis is the best way to ensure that workers are spending their money locally, paying taxes and that we, step—by—step, begin to reopen the economy and build our way back. from a loyalty scheme for keeping on staff to lower vat rates for hospitality, there is still help available. but, with the eat out to help out programme also ending, there are concerns from business groups too. the chancellor has been deft, he needs to show that same deftness going forward, look at the evidence, see what's happening inthe economy and think about how you might,

the chancellor, rishi sunak, said national insurance and pension contributions would need to be met firsteing paid by employers in the following two months. the scheme will finish at the end of october. more than 8 million people are currently receiving most of their pay from the british government. 0ur economics editor, faisal islam has the latest. when the pubs don't open, neither do the brewers, and so the government's job scheme has helped hugely keep 8.5 million workers on payrolls, on tap effectively, including here at wild card breweries. but any change to that generosity might push some over the edge. it wouldn't be viable for us for the furlough scheme to diminish and us to contribute more if we don't have clarity as to what is going on because at the end of the day, if a bar is closed and there is no money coming in, how are you supposed to financially contribute to that scheme? that is simply going to mean lots and lots of people out of work. at least those 8.5 million workers will now continue to get the bulk of their wages paid for by the taxpayer. injuly, this can now be on

and, you know, that is why there is speculation around our national insurance, so, you know, saying,r it" is a copout from the real question to both government and opposition to confront. i'd like to ask philip hammond about the impact of coronavirus outbreak on the cost of the leaving the eu transition period without a deal. this is not the ideal environment to be trying to reach a long—term deal that will shape the relationship between the uk and its most important trading partner for decades to come, and if there was a way of doing something which is quick and dirty as it were, a simple arrangement, which may not suit either party as a long—term settlement, but which is an acceptable temporary stop gap, then that may be the best way forward. i think we will end up with something that is called a trade agreement by the end of the year but is actuallyjust an agreement to go on talking about this sector and that sector and whatever. so i'm more optimistic, i think, than a few people that we will avoid that cliff edge. i think a no—deal would be absolutely disastrous. you know, with e

insurance companies, their whole obligation to shareholders and others is to minimize their -- the payouts. that sounds kind of cold and cynical, but that's the reality of this legal structure. >> reporter: the nation's largest insurance association tells us pain and suffering is intended to compensate the one who actually suffered. the group says changing the law would lead to greater expenses for businesses and ultimately consumers. it argues terminally ill plaintiffs already have other means to speed up the cases. in california, the terminally ill can request their trials begin in four months or less. but in the midst of the pandemic, with courtrooms still closed or severely backlogged, we have confirmed some plaintiffs never got their trials. just how many statewide is

and so with the national health insurance card, you can pick up your mask and you pay 20 cents per mask. >> and when you say national health insurance, that means health insurance for everybody, everybody's covered in the nation? >> correct. correct. >> okay. so, as we start to reopen, then, share with us how taiwan has been doing things, like the things we're about to start doing. we just talked to a restaurant that's starting dine h-in, so, talk about dine-in. what are restaurants doing to keep their employees and customers safe? >> sure. so, all the employees need to have their temperature checked and then if they have any symptoms, they can't come to work. if they have, you know, even coughing, sore throat, sneezing, fever, then should stay home. and so every day, employees show up to work, they will have their temperature taken. the tables, half the tables are removed. and so that keeps social distancing between one table to another. some restaurants also use dividers and so these are sort of transparent dividers so you can still see each other, but it prevents, sort of, you know,

national insurance payments, so use the existing infrastructure of national insurance payments and useto support their payroll. the other thing talked about is there is a £36 billion vat bill due in at the end of this month. how about scrapping that? all of these things can happen quickly with the existing infrastructure, and again, that refrain, we don't want to be filling in forms to get help. in the last couple of minutes toyota announced it is suspending production at all of its european factories including in teesside, in wales, lancashire. it is hardly surprising because all of the european car manufacturers have done this now, we're still waiting to from land rover. burniston is briton's single biggest car plant, we had the same from this yesterday. most of them are doing a two—week shutdown. if the virus continues to affect the economy for longer than that, how will they be able to restart? the other reason they are stopping is the disruption in the flow of parts from china and manufacturers all around the world that they need to keep going. difficult to see how they might be a

insurance companies, their whole obligation to their shareholders and others is to minimize the pay out. that sounds kind of cold and cynical, but that's a reality of this legal structure. >> reporter: the nation's largest insurance association tells us pain and suffering is intended to compensate the one who actually suffered. the group says changing the law would lead to greater expenses for businesses, and ultimately consumers. and it argues terminally ill plaintiffs already have other means to speed up their cases. >> in california, the terminally ill can request their trials begin in four months or less. but in the midst of the pandemic with court rooms still closed or severely backlogged, we've confirmed some plaintiffs never

the national insurance threshold will increase from £8,632 to £9,500.lastics packaging tax, although environmental groups have said the budget was a missed opportunity. much more on those measures to come, but first this report from our political correspondent nick eardley. the chancellor with his red box on budget day, a familiar sight but in farfrom familiar budget day, a familiar sight but in far from familiar circumstances. rishi sunak possibly is first budget a month after he was given the job comes with the economy facing a huge challenge as the country deals with the coronavirus outbreak. mr chancellor of the exchequer. the chancellor of the exchequer. the chancellor warned of disruption, after a fifth of workers off sick, businesses unable to access some goods, less consumer spending. the combination of those effects will have a significant impact on the uk economy. but it will be temporary. people will return to work. supply chains will return to normal. life will return to normal. for a period, it is going to be tough. but i am confident that

fdr abandoned national health insurance. each time she would bring it up, someone would say too much of a hopped a tow. we will not touch that one now. her last communications with fdr were please don't forget national health insurance. >> thank you so much for your work on her. i'm deeply grateful to you for having done that. as a feminist, just a minor suggestion. i'm were sensitive to the working man and would invite you to say working men and women. that aside, i wonder what in her childhood might have foretold this deep sympathy to the working people and to those who are kind of left out. >> right. >> frances perkins it was a very devout christian. she's an episcopalian and she had enormously deep empathy for the human condition. she was interested in the plight of immigrants, she was interested in the plight of workers, she often said that she felt peoples pain. >> she became fascinated in the american economy. she studied business. she's very interested in businessmen and how they, businessmen and women, primarily at t

insured property and crops to climate change. from 2013-2017, losses totaled $251 billion. as of april this year the national flood insurance program was $21 billion in debt to the treasury. the government owns and operates hundreds of thousands of facilities like defense installations and manages millions of acres of land that could be affected by climate change. in september 2018 hurricane florence damaged cam. in and of the marine corps facilities resulting in a preliminary repair estimate of $3.6 billion. one month later hurricane michael devastated tyndall air force base in florida resulting in a preliminary repair estimate of $300 billion. one way to reduce fiscal exposure is to reduce or illuminate long-term risks to people and property from natural hazards. in september 2018 we reported elevating building codes presented greater damages in texas and florida during the 2017 hurricane season. congress also passed the disaster recovery reform act of 2018 which enabled additional improvements at the state and local level. with regard to resilience the federal government has made limited investments but d

suspension of all requirements to pay any form of all requirements to pay any form of taxation, vat, national insurance income tax, it doesn't mean to say that businesses will not have to pay them eventually but at least they can hang onto that cash now because that may make the difference between surviving and dying. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. hello again. the heavy rain we have seen hello again. the heavy rain we have seen over recent hello again. the heavy rain we have seen over recent days have been working into our with her catchments causing a few issues. we've got similar flooding causing a few issues. we've got similarflooding building in an we've got that rivers coming over the banks here in worcestershire. and it's not just the banks here in worcestershire. and it's notjust across parts of the midlands risking flood warnings, estimate for us across other areas of england, wales and scotland. about 30 flood warnings in force at the moment. today has been a day of sunshine and showers and overnight though showers will continue to be driven in on this strong, gust

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if the also like to see review of the national insurance. tax on jobs and has been a tax that has been steadily increasing over the last 20 years. i would like to see that reviewed. i think it is important that we do what we can to encourage jobs . the current national insurance and of 13.8% is high penalizes companies that employ lots of people, and obviously we want companies to employ more people in these circumstances. the third thing i would do is look at how the labor market works better. can we have smarter employment law? there has been a lot of law introduced over the past two decades, much of it from the european union. all of it with good intentions but some of it does not work very well, and i think it to be improved. francine: when you talk about apprenticeships, why was the previous scheme not working? was it not enough? was it schemes for the employers, or the government did not do enough to make sure these kind of apprenticeships and training were put in place for enough people? problem really was that it was too complicated.

they will have to pay pension contributions and employers national insurance contributions.entitlements will accrue during this extra furlough period. it is a month with an estimation that it is going to cost about 7 billion for that month. employers, a lot of employers wa nt to month. employers, a lot of employers want to do it and they are hoping to keep staff ready to go back to work when they can open up. some are in hospitality and they just when they can open up. some are in hospitality and theyjust cannot trade at all. others are just, because of social distancing, they cannot have the same number of people in their offices or they cannot have anybody there because the work cannot be done. it is a lot of difficulty. i think both employers and employees want this to work, it is very late notice though, so everybody is going to be burning the midnight oil trying to make it work for employees as your colleague said, anybody who has been made redundant since september 23 will be able to be re—employed and that is the big hope. also, to qualify for this, you have to be fur

from today, employers must pay national insurance and pension contributions for their furloughed staffrkers. the freelancers have already lost their income, and there's been a wave of redundancies already. there's a possibility that we may have to make further redundancies. so, there's a real risk of everyone losing their job, frankly. from september, employers will need to pay 10% of their staffs wages while they remain on the furlough scheme. in october, that increases to 20% before cutting off completely at the end of that month. the fear is, with so many businesses still struggling, that will trigger a wave of redundancies. critics are calling for more support for the sectors that have been hit hardest. hospitality, the night—time economy are really feeling the effects of the necessary measures that are being taken. therefore, it makes sense for them to be given additional support and not to be ending the furlough on a one—size—fits—all basis, but in a targeted way, helping those sectors. the government says it's supporting closed parts of the economy with business rates relief, ta