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Part of Treasury – in the House of Commons at on 24 March 2020.

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Photo of Rishi Sunak Rishi Sunak The Chancellor of the Exchequer

We hope to have something to say very shortly. Implementation will take longer for the reasons I outlined, when a good point was made about capacity, whether at HMRC or DWP, to deliver brand-new schemes. However, in terms of saying what we plan to do, hopefully we can do that relatively shortly. Implementation will take longer because of the clear delivery challenges that the scheme would pose.