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Employment: Statistics

Commons · Question 20670 · Tabled 28 Aug 2026 · Cabinet Office · Official record

Answered 8 Sep 2026

Question

Asked by Mike Wood

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment has the Office for National Statistics made for the reason in the discrepancies between the number of payrolled jobs recorded in (a) the Labour Force Survey and (b) HMRC’s Real Time Information d

Answer

Answered by Dan Tomlinson, 8 Sep 2026

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority. A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 28th August is attached.