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(8 years, 3 months ago)
Commons Chamber13. What recent assessment he has made of job creation and employment trends in East Anglia; and if he will make a statement.
In the east of England, the number of people in employment has increased by nearly 300,000 since 2010, and the employment rate is close to the highest on record.
Is the Minister aware that in my constituency unemployment has come down from 4.3% in 2010 to 1.5% last month, and that only last Friday Mars Food announced a very welcome £23 million investment in its King’s Lynn plant, thus creating more well paid, skilled jobs? Does he agree that in this post-Brexit climate we should all be doing what we can to flag up such successes?
That is yet another sign of just how fundamentally strong our economy is, which is helping us to deliver record numbers of people in employment.