Chancellor Sunak outlined that the Government is now in Phase 2 of its response with a targeted Plan for Jobs, with Phase 3 being about rebuilding.
- The Plan For Jobs will support the UK's economic recovery while continuing to prioritise people's health by:
- Introducing a new Job Retention Bonus to encourage firms to keep on furloughed workers
- Supporting jobs with direct help to find work and to gain the skills people need to get a job
- Protecting jobs in the hospitality and accommodation sectors and at attractions by supporting demand for these businesses, giving them confidence to reopen
- Creating jobs with action to get the property market moving, to increase and bring forward infrastructure investment, and to make homes greener, warmer and cheaper to heat.
Supporting jobs
- Job Retention Bonus
- A new £2 billion Kickstart Scheme to create hundreds of thousands of new, fully subsidised jobs for young people across the country.
- A total of £1.6 billion will be invested in scaling up employment support schemes, training and apprenticeships to help people looking for a job, in particular the young that have been hard hit.
- Creating jobs
- £5.8 billion will be spent on shovel-ready construction projects to get Britain building.
- Protecting jobs
- To encourage people to safely return to eating out at restaurants the Government's new Eat Out to Help Out discount scheme will provide a 50% reduction (up to £10) for sit-down meals in cafes, restaurants and pubs until the end of August 2020.
- VAT on most tourism and hospitality-related activities will also be cut from 20% to 5%.
- Helping the property market
- There will be a temporary increase in the the Nil Rate Band of Residential Stamp Duty Land Tax, in England and Northern Irelandfrom £125,000 to £500,000 until 31 March 2021.
- In England and Northern Ireland nearly 9 out of 10 people getting on or moving up the property ladder will pay no Stamp Duty at all. This will drive growth and support jobs across the housebuilding and property sectors.
'The £30bn worth of stimulus measures announced yesterday demonstrates the fine line that Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has to walk. He has to balance the near-term need to safeguard the post-lockdown economic recovery, with the risk of testing the limits of the bond market's appetite for U.K gilts. The gilt market, and sterling, barely moved in response. Borrowing costs are record lows. But it's a long road ahead.'
Tom Elliott, Senior Investment Strategist
Further information is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/a-plan-for-jobs-2020
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