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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 23 April 2007.

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Photo of Owen Paterson Owen Paterson Shadow Minister (Transport) 2:30, 23 April 2007

The latest edition of "Labour Market Statistics", published on 18 April, showed that the number of economically inactive people of working age rose by 76,000 in the past quarter to 7.93 million. Is the Chancellor to blame?

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