The number and percentage of employments supported by the CJRS furlough scheme
The government announced the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) on 20 March 2020. Employers were able to claim CJRS support for employees furloughed from the start of March. Between 1 July 2020 and 31 October 2020, except in certain exceptional circumstances, staff who had not already been furloughed under the scheme could not be included in claims for support. The government then announced an extension to the CJRS starting in November 2020 and currently scheduled to remain open until the end of April 2021.
The latest data gives information about furloughed employments at the end of January 2021. On that date:
Information about furloughed employments by sector is only available for the North East region (including the North East and Tees Valley LEP areas). At the end of January 2021 in the region:
Information about fully and partially furloughed employments is also only available on a regional basis. In the North East region at the end of January 2021:
Sources: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) Statistics - furloughed employments at 31 Jan 2021 (provisional): [HMRC, last updated on 25 Feb2021].
Totals for July to October were published in a previous release in Dec 2020.
Data information: North East Local Enterprise Partnership area. The data for January is provisional as a small number of employers could file late claims with the agreement of HMRC if they had a reasonable excuse.
Sources: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) Statistics - take-up rates at 31 Jan 2021 (provisional): [HMRC, last updated on 26 Feb 2021]
Data information: The take-up rate is calculated by dividing the number of employments furloughed by the number of employments that could be eligible for furlough.
The data for January is provisional as a small number of employers could file late claims with the agreement of HMRC if they had a reasonable excuse.
Sources: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) Statistics - furloughed employments at 31 Jan 2021 (provisional): [HMRC, last updated on 25 Feb 2021]
Data information: Current Parliamentary constituencies. The data for January is provisional as a small number of employers could file late claims with the agreement of HMRC if they had a reasonable excuse.
Source: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) Statistics to end of January 2021 (provisional) [HMRC, last updated on 25 Feb 2021]
Data information: The data for January is provisional as a small number of employers could file late claims with the agreement of HMRC if they had a reasonable excuse.
Source: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) Statistics at 31 Jan (provisional) [HMRC, last updated on 25 Feb 2021]
Data information: Some sectors have been renamed from their descriptions in the original dataset to aid clarity. About 97 per cent of furloughed employments in the North East region are within the 13 sectors named in this chart. The remaining 3 per cent are within finance and insurance; water supply, sewerage and waste; agriculture forestry and fishing; mining and quarrying; energy production and supply; public administration; the household sector or the sector is unknown.
The data for January is provisional as a small number of employers could file late claims with the agreement of HMRC if they had a reasonable excuse.
The North East region includes the North East and Tees Valley LEP areas.
Sources: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) Statistics - furloughed employments at 31 Jan 2021 (provisional): [HMRC, last updated on 25 Feb 2021]
Data information: The data for January is provisional as a small number of employers could file late claims with the agreement of HMRC if they had a reasonable excuse. The North East region includes the North East and Tees Valley LEP areas.