Written Question·Treasury·UIN 114128

Private Sector: Recruitment

Tabled: 20 February 2026
Answered: 2 March 2026

Question

Lee Anderson

Reform UKAshfield

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

James Murray
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 ...

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