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It could take months before the benefits of Jaguar Land Rover resuming production filters down to the supply chain, a chamber of commerce said.<\/p>\n

JLR has said it would resume some production in the “coming days”<\/a> after a cyber-attack forced the carmaker to suspend operations.<\/p>\n

At the weekend it emerged the government will underwrite a \u00a31.5bn loan guarantee to the company in a bid to support its suppliers. <\/p>\n

Chief executive of Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce Corin Crane said replies to a survey it carried out indicated one in six businesses were already making redundancies with others putting workers on zero-hour contracts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Crane said 84 businesses replied to the survey, all from JLR’s supply chain.<\/p>\n

“They accounted for 30,000 employees, so you can see how big this issue is right across Coventry and Warwickshire, [the] Black Country and Birmingham, and most of those businesses [have] been impacted.<\/p>\n

“Nearly half of them have been impacted financially.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Work at JLR’s three UK facilities in the West Midlands and Merseyside was halted on 1 September. <\/p>\n

The BBC has understood manufacturing will resume first at the engine facility in Wolverhampton on 6 October, while production at other plants will have a phased return.<\/p>\n

Mr Crane said JLR would start paying “their tier one suppliers”, but how “the ones below those tiers get paid is a little bit more difficult to pick out.”<\/p>\n

He added: “That 1.5 billion is great… We probably need more and… need it quickly.”<\/p>\n

Coventry-based Evtec Automotive, which employs about 600 people, said it had probably laid off about 500 to date.<\/p>\n

Chairman David Roberts stated: “We’re paying them on 80% of their normal pay.<\/p>\n

“That’s coming out of our cash flow, obviously.”<\/p>\n

Asked whether the government acted quickly enough, he replied: “I’m slightly underwhelmed by the government’s response to how they handled it.<\/p>\n

“If the UK wants to have advanced manufacturing capability, if it wants 200,000 people who are employed in the industry to carry on, it’s really got to come through a little bit… quicker and more agile to support the supply chain.”<\/p>\n

Mr Roberts also said the majority of “the tier ones really know their supply chain, so they’ll be very strong at making sure that tier two, tier three is supported”.<\/p>\n

Business Secretary Peter Kyle has previously said the loan guarantee would help protect jobs in the West Midlands, Merseyside and elsewhere in the JLR supply chain.<\/p>\n

“We are offering a \u00a31.5bn credit facility to JLR with the explicit intention that that is to support the supply chain into JLR as well,” he said.<\/p>\n

“This is a big moment, this will offer an enormous resource for JLR and the supply chain to get through the immediate challenges that they face.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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