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Radio 4,20 Apr 2020,39 mins

Furlough Pay, Hand Sanitiser and Post-Lockdown Restaurants

You and Yours

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The government will start paying out financial support today to help businesses pay wages to furloughed workers - business organisations urge that there be no delay or it could lead to shutdowns. Hand sanitiser was one of the products that disappeared from shops while other like pasta and toilet rolls have made a come back why is sanitiser in such short supply? How will restaurants change after the lock-down; will our reluctance to sit cheek by jowl with others hit eateries business models. Supermarket supply chains and product ranges will have to change warns health supremo There are not many cars on the road in the last month and not likely to be in the next so why have car insurance premiums continued to soar? Millions of people are having a hard time financially in the lock-down but many more are not. Because they are still being paid but can't spend like they normally do millions are wracking up savings - what should they do with them?

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