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Women: Personal Care Services

Asked by Dame Harriett BaldwinConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 24 March 2025UIN 39411

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made on the potential impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on the levels of employment of women in the (a) hairdressing and (b) beauty industries.

Answered by James Murray

The Government has taken a number of difficult but necessary decisions on tax, welfare, and spending to fix the public finances and fund public services.

The Government has set out the impacts of the policy changes from Autumn Budget 2024 in the usual way.

The Office for Budget Responsibility’s October 2024 forecast, which considers the impact of all the Budget measures, expects the employment level to increase from 33.1 million in 2024 to 34.3 million in 2029.

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