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Employment: Aldridge-brownhills

Asked by Wendy MortonConservativeTreasuryTabled Answered 28 April 2025UIN 44987

The question

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment she has made of potential impact of the Spring Statement 2025 on levels of employment in Aldridge-Brownhills.

Answered by James Murray

At Spring Statement 2025, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the government’s independent official forecaster, published its bi-annual economic and fiscal forecasts.

In line with its mandate as set out in law, the OBR does not produce forecasts at a sub-national level.

The OBR stated that it will make a full assessment of the economic impacts of the welfare policies announced in the Pathways to Work Green Paper ahead of its next forecast in the Autumn.

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