Heatherwick repays furlough money

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Practice confirms government handout will be fully repaid this month

Heatherwick Studio has said it is repaying all the money it received from the government as part of the furlough scheme.

The practice, whose founder Thomas Heatherwick was paid nearly £6m in dividends in the past two years, confirmed it would have paid back all the furlough cash by the end of this month.

But despite repeated requests it refused to reveal the size of the hand-out it had received or how many staff it had furloughed.

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