The Minister has been asked five times to identify the figures for unemployment if we leave the customs union, so let us make it easier for him: will unemployment go up or will it go down?
What I can say is that unemployment in this country is at a record low, demonstrating the coherence of this Government’s economic policy.
[Official Report, 22 October 2018, Vol. 648, c. 32.]
Letter of correction from the Economic Secretary to the Treasury:
An error has been identified in my response to the hon. Member for Edinburgh South (Ian Murray).
The correct response should have been: