For the second time in just six months, as a sector and as a nation, we are facing into dark clouds of uncertainty. Rising infection rates have resulted in a new raft of stricter social distancing measures and the prospect of further local lockdowns. Construction firms and their employees right across the UK are undoubtedly experiencing those same feelings of angst that we all hoped might have passed.

Government has been once again responded swiftly with measures to protect business and jobs in our already battered and brittle economy. Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Winter Economy Plan, which includes the new Jobs Support Scheme, will offer some solace to building firms facing potential disruption to projects both those currently in construction and those in their future pipleine.

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