The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme online portal opened on Monday morning and HMRC has reported the following statistics, which appear to show the scheme is working much better than expected:
185,000 firms submitted claims
1,300,000 were employees reported as furloughed
Total value of £1.5bn
https://twitter.com/HMRCgovuk/status/1252616495407992834?mc_cid=18b23520d5&mc_eid=323433cc77