Oral QuestionDepartment for Work and Pensions

What recent assessment he has made of trends in youth unemployment.

Tabled: 12 December 2017Answered: 18 December 2017

Asked by

Ms Nusrat Ghani

ConservativeSussex Weald

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

Answer from Hansard

The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (James Murray)

The Government are committed to keeping taxes on working people as low as possible, which is why we are not increasing the basic, higher or additional rates of income tax, employee national insurance contributions or VAT. The Government have published tax information and impact notes for tax policy changes made at the Budget, which give a clear explanation of the policy objective together with details of the tax impact on individuals. The OBR publishes an economic and fiscal outlook alongside the Budget, which sets out its assessment of the effects of Government decisions taken on tax.