Employment
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the timeframe is for the 80 per cent employment rate target.
Answered by Alison McGovern
The trend of economic inactivity is a long-term challenge; the UK is the only country in the G7 with an inactivity rate higher than before the pandemic. We want to raise productivity and improve the quality of work to help more people get into and on in work. Achieving an 80% employment rate would mean over two million more people in work across the UK and would place the UK among the highest performing countries in the world.
The Get Britain Working White Paper set out that the Labour Market Advisory Board will support our work on the exact definition and measurement of our ambitions on employment and labour force participation. The timeframe for this long-term ambition will be determined following this work.
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