Whilst the Department extended the scheme’s duration by 12 months in November 2020, it later let these businesses down when on 27 March 2021 it suddenly announced the Scheme would close at the end of 31 March 2021.35 This abrupt cancellation itself had negative impacts on the companies who invested in the scheme. For instance, the Federation of Master Builders reported loss of time and money, redundancies of staff hired to meet demand from the scheme, and reputational damage through being unable to service all their customers in the limited time available. It also stated that maintaining PAS certification requires continuous work, and thus the closure of the Scheme risked the loss of capacity in the industry.36