Fosters pays back £500,000 furlough money

By Dave Rogers2020-11-02T06:00:00

Practice says it has also repaid those staff asked to take 20% pay cut

Foster & Partners has become the first big-name architect to publicly confirm that it has paid back the money it received from the government’s furlough scheme.

The initiative, which had been due to wrap up at the end of last month but has been extended into December because of the upcoming second lockdown in England, was introduced by chancellor Rishi Sunak in March and, according to Treasury figures, saw 30% of the UK workforce accessing it at its peak in May.

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