Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 8329

Unemployment: Stirling and Strathallan

Tabled: 9 October 2024

Answered: 15 October 2024

Question

Chris Kane

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of recent trends in levels of economic inactivity in Stirling and Strathallan constituency.

Answer

Alison McGovern

The Government has made clear that we consider the current rate of inactivity to be unacceptably high. With nearly 2.8 million people out of work due to long-term sickness and the last Parliament seeing the biggest increase in economic inactivity in forty...

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