'Impact on JLR supply chain might last months'

A chamber of commerce has said if it takes "a while" for Jaguar Land Rover to reach full production, it might take months "for that to filter down into the supply chain".

JLR has stated it would resume some production in the "coming days" after a cyber-attack forced the carmaker to suspend operations.

At the weekend it emerged the government will underwrite a £1.5bn loan guarantee to the company in a bid to support its suppliers.

Chief executive of Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce Corin Crane said it saw in its survey one in six businesses were already making redundancies.

He added about 25% of them were putting workers onto zero-hour contracts or asking people not to come in.

Mr Crane said 84 businesses replied to the survey, all from JLR's supply chain.

"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.

"Nearly half of them have been impacted financially."