Oral Question·Women and Equalities
“If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 14 May 2018Answered: 17 May 2018
Asked by
Sir Desmond Swayne
Conservative — New Forest West
Answering Minister
the Minister for Women and Equalities
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Employment (Alison McGovern)
The unemployment rate is 4.7%—well below the historic high of 11.9% in 1984—but no one should ever be complacent about unemployment, especially considering the significant jump in economic inactivity under the Tories. That is why I am pleased to tell the House that employment is up by 725,000, to 75.3%, since July 2024 and inactivity is down by more than the rise in unemployment—a reduction of 400,000.