British employers have voluntarily returned more than £215million to the Government in furlough payments they decided they did not want or need.
Housebuilders Redrow, Barratt and Taylor Wimpey have both said they returned all the furlough money they had claimed. They were joined by Bunzl, IKEA and many others.
Meanwhile Primark has said it will refuse the £30 million it could have claimed for bringing back staff under the Jobs Retention Bonus, a £1,000-an-employee payment that companies get for bringing staff off furlough and keeping them employed until the end of January.
According to figures from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), so far 80,433 employers have returned money that they were given to cover the salaries of their workers.
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