Private Sector: Recruitment
Commons · Question 114128 · Tabled 20 Feb 2026 · Treasury · Official record
Answered 2 Mar 2026
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of employer costs on recruitment freezes the private sector.
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, judge that employment will increase in every year of the forecast, and will be higher in every year, than in their ...