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There remain concerns over how some people have been forced to repay the allowance, after going only slightly over the earnings threshold.

Instead, a court-monitored receivership allows an attorney to auction off the company’s assets to repay investors and creditors.

There is a "high degree of uncertainty" over how much of the hundreds of millions of pounds lent to sports bodies during the Covid pandemic will be repaid, says an influential group of MPs.

The East Kent University Hospitals trust, where an inquiry found at least 45 babies could have survived, was also forced to repay £2m after falsely claiming it had met the safety criteria.

However, he made only the first payment and then put their home on the market in an attempt to repay the rest.