The chancellor, Richie Soon AC, has been forced to expand it.

He's announced new measures to help businesses which legally have to close because of coronavirus restrictions.

In Scotland, some pubs and restaurants had to shut this evening for at least 16 days and many more may be told to close in some parts of England next week.

The prime minister will make a statement to MPs on Monday.

Under the chancellor's later scheme, the government will pay two thirds of the wages of people in businesses which are ordered to shut.

The measures come into effect on the first of November across the UK on last for six months on for affected firms.

In England, there's an increase in grants with up to £3000 a month paid every fortnight.

But some businesses say they can't survive another period of closure even with financial assistance.

Here's our consumer affairs correspondent Sara Korca.

Local lockdowns and reduced opening hours are already hurting hospitality on the edge of greater Manchester altering.

Um has Bean under tighter rules since July on the prospect of pubs and restaurants.

Being forced to close in areas with high infection rates has angered business owners.

It's disastrous because the minute tap is turned off.

You've got no ability, Thio generate any income.

Hospitality industry is being completely and utterly slated.

Onda Specter, now of further closure, is really terrifying.

There will be more help to cushion the blow.

Staff working for companies told to close by law will get two thirds of their wages paid for by the government.

So today I'm announcing an expansion of our jobs support scheme specifically to protect those jobs of people who work in businesses that may be asked to close.

If that happens, those workers will receive two thirds of their wages for the time that they're unable to go to work on Listening closely to that is William Robinson, who's brewery runs 260 pubs across the Northwest.

I think there is definitely a relief that he's listening, he says.

If some are told to shut wage support and an increase in business grants of up to £3000 a month will take some of the pressure off the closure of a business reopened business.

When that happens on, if that happens will be very expensive for small businesses and large businesses.

They have a lot of costs on bond, depending on the level of grant they get will depend whether that will really, truly cover their expenses or not.

The hospitality sector has a raft of safety measures in place and says it's being unfairly singled out.

On the big unknown is for those businesses that may have to close their doors again.

Will today's extra financial support be enough to help them survive in the long term?

The land lady of the Bulls head in Trafford fares a difficult winter ahead.

The future is very uncertain and it's it's quite scary.

We've done a bear order.

Do I need the beer?

Don't know.

Does it need to go down the drain?

Mayors representing cities in the north of England say the chancellor's measures don't go far enough.

While Labor wants more to be done to protect jobs in other countries, those schemes air working to incentivize employees to keep people in work.

His scheme, the Chancellor scheme, is just not doing that sufficiently on.

We're seeing the impact and levels of unemployed people on the extra financial support will only apply to businesses told to close by the government on ALS.

This at the start of what should be the lucrative Christmas period.

Sarah Korkie, BBC News in Greater Manchester.

Well, let's talk first to our economics editor, Faisal Islam.

And what's your assessment of the scale of what Richie Soon AC announced today?

Well, Treasury says, this is into you turn.

They've been listening to the voices of the likes of the Northern mayors and changing circumstances.

There's a partial reverse.

Essentially, this is the continuation for a smaller number off the original fellow scheme that was due toa uh, stop at the end of this month.

But this scope is much smaller.

We're talking about a few 100,000 workers.

We don't actually know whom, because it depends, of course, on which sectors in which cities and regions are actually shut down.

We'll find that out soon.

We're talking a few 100,000.

We're talking a few 100 month, not billions and billions on.

That's because the government wants tow target, support its strategy, even as on some metrics with same sort of level of the infection as we were in March when the original lock down happened.

They want to deal this locally on bats because of the economy.

Andi.

We had MAWR figures today, and another reminder of the sheer impact that this pandemic is having on the broader economy.

Yes, obviously remember a huge hit to the economy because of the widespread national shutdown back in April that we can show you a chart of that and you'll see that big sort of cliff that V shape.

And that was in April.

Now we started to get a bounce back in.

The economy was growing pretty rapidly as the light switch back on that has begun to slow down in August, raising some fears that the recovery is beginning to peter out even before we have the prospect of these new restrictions.

All right, for now, thank you, Islam.

And let's talk as well to our political correspondent Alex Forsyth on We know tonight, Alex, that we will be hearing from Boris Johnson on Monday.

Yeah, we know there's been concern in Downing Street about the spread of the virus for some time, which has led today's now of speculation about the possibility of tougher restrictions in the worst affected areas, including perhaps some temporary closures of pubs and bars.

But there's been no detail, no clarity, so critics say it's merely added to confusion and anxiety.

I think that is in part why we had that statement from the chancellor today.

An attempt to reassure that support will be in place for businesses that might have to close but still no details of when or where that might happen.

So we will hear from the prime minister, who address parliament on Monday, to set out the next steps and tonight Number 10 has written to some of the MPs from the Northwest and said it's very likely that certain local areas will face further restrictions.

Now we expect there'll be a three tier system introduced with different measures, depending on the severity of cases in each area on Downing Street is very keen to stress that local leaders will be involved in making those decisions before they're implemented.

Something of an acknowledgment.

I think of the frustration and anger that some local and regional leaders have felt in the way that restrictions have been managed so far, so the details will be pinned down in a series of meetings taking place in Downing Street over the weekend.

But I think it's pretty fair to assume at this point that the package of measures that the chancellor announced today will be put to the test fairly soon.

All right, Alex.

Thank you, Alex.

Foresight.