Unemployment

(asked on 20th February 2026) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of her policies on levels of unemployment.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 2nd March 2026

Economic growth is this government’s number one priority.

The OBR’s November forecast, which accounts for the impacts of government policy, judges that employment will increase in every year of the forecast, and will be higher in every year than in their Spring 2025 forecast.

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