Written questions

Unemployment

Commons · Question 114120 · Tabled 20 Feb 2026 · Treasury · Official record

Answered 2 Mar 2026

Question

Asked by Lee Anderson

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

Answer

Answered by James Murray, 2 Mar 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 ...