Employment Rate: OBR Forecast

Part of Work and Pensions – in the House of Commons at on 18 December 2023.

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Photo of Alison McGovern Alison McGovern Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions)

You can always tell the Conservatives are struggling to answer the questions, Mr Speaker, because they go back to those same old things about what happened under the last Labour Government. After 13 years, they have nothing to be proud of. If what the Secretary of State said was true, we might expect that after a little time some of his policies would work, but is it not true that it is not just next year that the OBR forecasts the employment rate to be down, but the year after that, too?