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Employment: Migrant Workers

Asked by Chris PhilpConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 10 February 2025UIN 28963

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of % December 2024 to Question 16739 on Employment, what proportion of the increase in employment level is due to net immigration.

Answered by Emma Reynolds

The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) is responsible for producing forecasts of the UK economy. The OBR’s latest forecasts, including detail of its forecasts of employment and net migration, are set out in the OBR’s October 2024 Economic and Fiscal Outlook, available on the OBR’s website.

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