LONDON (Reuters) -Jaguar Land Rover’s production shutdown after a cyberattack is hitting businesses in Britain’s West Midlands region, a survey showed on Friday, with firms already making redundancies or cutting staff hours in response.

The government is considering financial support for the luxury carmaker, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, after the cyberattack halted production at the start of this month. It has extended the shutdown until October.

JLR has three factories that together produce about 1,000 cars per day, and sustain many jobs in the area around Birmingham, Britain’s second biggest city. Some small suppliers have told a parliamentary committee that they had one week left at most before they ran out of cash.

A survey of 84 businesses representing nearly 30,000 emplo

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