Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 56954
Employment: Older People
Tabled: 3 June 2025
Answered: 11 June 2025
Question
Mrs Elsie Blundell
Labour — Heywood and Middleton North
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including an increase in employment among people aged 50–59 and 60–66 as a distinct intermediate outcome metric in the Get Britain Working frame
Answer
Alison McGovernA key outcome in our Get Britain Working outcome metrics framework is our ambition to raise the country’s employment rate to 80%. To achieve this ambition, we will need to improve employment across a range of groups of the population, including people age...
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