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Oral Answers to Questions

Michelle Donelan Excerpts
Tuesday 1st March 2016

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Greg Hands Portrait Greg Hands
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We monitor household debt on an ongoing basis. If the hon. Lady has specific cases she would like to show me, I am sure we could look at them and pass them on to the Department for Work and Pensions and others. I have to say, however, that overall the employment picture remains extremely strong. We have an employment rate of 74.1%. Since the first quarter of 2010, the UK employment rate has grown more than in any other G7 country.

Michelle Donelan Portrait Michelle Donelan (Chippenham) (Con)
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What more support, pension-wise, can the Chancellor give to the self-employed? Recent trends suggest that in five years’ time 4.7 million British people will be self-employed and will not benefit from auto-enrolment.