UK finance minister declines to estimate cost of new job support scheme

Britain's new job support scheme announced on Thursday is very tricky to cost, finance minister Rishi Sunak said when asked to comment on an estimate of 5 billion pounds ($6.4 billion).

Sunak said at a news conference that full costings of the new scheme would come later. He gave a figure of 800 million pounds for a VAT cut also announced earlier on Thursday.

(Reporting by David Milliken, writing by Estelle Shirbon; editing by Stephen Addison)