Thank you all or your comments. It does seem highly unlikely that the property could have increased in value so much in such a short space of time.
Once again, many thanks to all.

I echo Tornado's comments.

Once again, thank you all for your replies and guidance. All most helpful.

Noted, thank you.
Presumably top-slicing relief can be claimed.

The bond was indeed surrendered by the trustees in the tax year following the death of the settlor.

The CE certificate is silent as to which year the event arose but recites the date of surrender as being Sept 2023. Presumably, therefore, the date of surrender (23/24) is the year in which the event took place.

Thank you both for your most helpful replies.

I'm not so sure that the administration period could possibly have ended before all the assets had been sold.

And I agree with Wanderer's third comment.

Can I ask what alternatives there are please?

For those deciding to use VT Transaction+, don't forget that it requires the 32-bit version of Excel. It won't run on the 64-bit version.

I'm in the same boat.
I chose the claim period as being up to 1st May for all furloughed staff.
The claim involved one complete month plus a few days for the monthly-paid and 5 full weeks plus a few days for the weekly-paids.
Convoluted and time-consuming method, I know, but I can't see another way round it without risking having the claim rejected.

I don't think the date of payment to the employees is relevant. The start date of the claim is the date on which the employees were first furloughed. In your case, that is whichever day in w/e 27 March they were furloughed.
If you enter "w/e 12 April" as the start date, you'll be missing out of the claim the 2 preceding weeks.