The decision has intensified concerns among suppliers, who rely on JLR’s ‘just in time’ production schedules and have been forced to halt operations.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has extended its production shutdown until at least 1 October, after the cyber attack that crippled its IT systems left the UK’s biggest automaker unable to restart operations.

The pause, which started on 31 August, has already cost the car behemoth hundreds of millions of pounds in lost output, and threatens to ripple through a supply chain that employs over 200,000 people.

Over 33,000 staff work directly for JLR at plants in Solihull, Halewood and Wolverhampton.

A JLR spokesperson said on Tuesday: “We have made this decision to give clarity for the coming week as we build the timelined for the phased restart of o

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