Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Carolyn Harris and Simon Clarke

Tuesday 15th March 2022 Commons Chamber

[Mr Clarke]

Youth unemployment is lower today than it was pre-pandemic, and the wider success of the scheme has to be judged in the context that the worst-case scenario that we were looking to offset never came to pass because of the interventions that we made. If a scheme does not achieve the headline numbers that were anticipated at the time it was established because the wider economic performance of the country was so much better than anticipated, that is a success, not something to bemoan.

[Carolyn Harris (Swansea East) (Lab)]

4. What assessment he has made of the potential merits for the Exchequer of reforming the gambling industry.