Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Freddie van Mierlo and Brian Mathew

Tuesday 10th March 2026 Commons Chamber

[Freddie van Mierlo (Henley and Thame) (LD)]

11. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the autumn Budget 2025 on levels of youth unemployment.

[Brian Mathew (Melksham and Devizes) (LD)]

18. What assessment she has made of the potential impact of the autumn Budget 2025 on levels of youth unemployment.

[The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Torsten Bell)]

Last week, the Office for Budget Responsibility set out its updated forecast for the UK economy, including for unemployment to peak this year before falling in each and every year thereafter. Longer-term problems for young people have been building in our labour market for far too long, with employment rates that are too low and levels of those not in education, employment or training soaring in the last Parliament. We will not allow a generation of young people to be left behind, which is why the Government have committed £820 million for the youth guarantee, strengthening employment support and guaranteeing jobs for the long-term unemployed.