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Employment: Statistics

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 8 September 2026UIN 20670

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment has the Office for National Statistics made for the reason in the discrepancies between the number of payrolled jobs recorded in (a) the Labour Force Survey and (b) HMRC’s Real Time Information data.

Answered by Cabinet Office

The information requested falls under the remit of the UK Statistics Authority.

A response to the Hon gentleman’s Parliamentary Question of 28th August is attached.

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