Question follow-through · 18672
Unemployment
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on levels of unemployment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on levels of unemployment.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Office for Budget Responsibility’s October 2024 forecast, which takes into account measures announced in the Budget, expects the unemployment rate will fall to 4.1% next year and remain low until 2029.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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