As I write this, the furlough scheme has just over a month to run. After that, the central support for businesses to retain staff through the Government paying up to 80 per cent of an employee’s salary will come to a stop.

This will be replaced by a different scheme, but it will be one that is more limited in scope and which effectively filters out those sectors that are likely to be most at risk as the country steels itself for the economic consequences of the Covid pandemic.