Coronavirus: All restaurants, pubs and leisure outlets ordered to close / measures announced to pay workers' wages

Coronavirus: All restaurants, pubs and leisure outlets ordered to close / measures announced to pay workers' wages; ENGLAND: London: 10 Downing Street: INT CUTAWAY of Boris Johnson (Prime Minister), Rishi Sunak MP (Chancellor) and Dr Jenny Harries (Deputy Chief Medical Officer) at daily coronavirus press conference Rishi Sunak MP (Chancellor) press conference SOT - any employer in the country - small or large, charitable or non-profit - will be eligible for the scheme/ employers will be able to contact HMRC for a grant to cover most of the wages of people who are not working, but are furloughed and kept on payroll rather than being laid off/ government grants will cover 80 per cent of the salry of retained workers up to a toal of 2,500 pounds a month/ I am placing no limit on the amount of funding available for this scheme/ - I am deferring the next quarter of VAT payments, that means no business will pay any VAT from now until the end of June and you will have until the end of the financial year to repay those bills/ that is a direct injection of over 30 billion pounds of cash to businesses, equivalent to one and a half per cent of GDP - to strengthen the safety net, I'm increasing today the Universal Credit standard allowance for the next 12 months by 1000 pounds a year Press conference CUTAWAYs