Extend furlough or face Halloween jobs nightmare MPs tell Chancellor
dailyrecord.co.ukfurlough scheme or risk mass long-term unemployment and business closures.MPs on the powerful Treasury Select Committee raised fresh fears for the economy if the worker support scheme comes to an abrupt end on October 31, as planned by the UK Government.It comes amid growing fears of a jobs nightmare after the Halloween deadline.Mel Stride MP, chair of the Treasury committee, said they'd already been let down by the government and demanded action.Stride said: "The Committee's disappointment that the Government did not implement our recommendations to help those who have fallen through the gaps in support persists.
Our second report of the inquiry focuses on emerging challenges as lockdown measures are lifted."One such challenge is to target.
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