Eat out to help out: Britons claim 35m discounted meals
by Larry Elliott from on (#571R2)
Treasury says figures for first three weeks of restaurant scheme are expected to rise
More than 35m discounted meals were claimed in the first two weeks of the government's eat out to help out" scheme for Britain's hard-pressed hospitality sector, the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has announced.
Figures released by HM Revenue & Customs show that Britons increasingly got the appetite for the cut-price offers, with the number of claims submitted by participating businesses more than doubling in the second week from just over 10m in the scheme's first week.
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